diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3afe2d6ac..0b135e703 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-# Ignore various bazel output folders
-bazel-*
+# Ignore the garbage folder, in which I slowly assemble a bunch of
+# trash locally that might be valuable in the future.
+garbage/
 
 # Ignore Nix result symlinks
 result