diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 580e5c97..7cfaa92d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ var/
 *.egg-info/
 .installed.cfg
 *.egg
+pip-wheel-metadata/
 
 # PyInstaller
 #  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template