diff --git a/package/config/.gitignore b/package/config/.gitignore
index 624f6502e0..106bc1258a 100644
--- a/package/config/.gitignore
+++ b/package/config/.gitignore
@@ -21,3 +21,8 @@ nconf
 qconf
 gconf
 kxgettext
+
+#
+# Quilt is being used to handle the patch series
+#
+.pc