diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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index 00000000..fda92348
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+.deps
+.libs
+*.la
+*.lo
+*.o
+Makefile
+Makefile.in
+
+/ABOUT-NLS
+/autom4te.cache
+/Doxyfile
+/aclocal.m4
+/compile
+/config.guess
+/config.h
+/config.h.in
+/config.log
+/config.rpath
+/config.status
+/config.sub
+/configure
+/depcomp
+/install-sh
+/libtool
+/ltmain.sh
+/missing
+/stamp-h1
+
+/src/liblzma/liblzma.pc
+/src/xz/xz
+/src/xzdec/lzmadec
+/src/xzdec/xzdec
diff --git a/m4/.gitignore b/m4/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6e6c3015
--- /dev/null
+++ b/m4/.gitignore
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+codeset.m4
+gettext.m4
+glibc2.m4
+glibc21.m4
+iconv.m4
+intdiv0.m4
+intl.m4
+intldir.m4
+intmax.m4
+inttypes-pri.m4
+inttypes_h.m4
+lcmessage.m4
+lib-ld.m4
+lib-link.m4
+lib-prefix.m4
+libtool.m4
+lock.m4
+longdouble.m4
+longlong.m4
+ltoptions.m4
+ltsugar.m4
+ltversion.m4
+lt~obsolete.m4
+nls.m4
+po.m4
+printf-posix.m4
+progtest.m4
+size_max.m4
+stdint_h.m4
+uintmax_t.m4
+ulonglong.m4
+visibility.m4
+wchar_t.m4
+wint_t.m4
+xsize.m4
diff --git a/po/.gitignore b/po/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3331837e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/po/.gitignore
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+boldquot.sed
+en@boldquot.header
+en@quot.header
+insert-header.sin
+Makefile.in.in
+Makevars.template
+POTFILES
+quot.sed
+remove-potcdate.sin
+Rules-quot
+stamp-po
+xz.pot