diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 59bffd958161a..c972a0ea34445 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ scikit_learn.egg-info/
 .coverage
 coverage
 *.py,cover
+.tags
 tags
 covtype.data.gz
 20news-18828/