diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9fe39222..8172e1c7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 .htpasswd
 # Ignore data/ and vendor/
 data/
-!lib/data/
 vendor/
 # Ignore unit testing logs, api docs and eclipse project files
 doc/