diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f420d4228e..f630444a0f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -89,17 +89,8 @@
 /m4/nls.m4
 /m4/po.m4
 /m4/progtest.m4
-/nix-setuid-helper
-/nix/AUTHORS
-/nix/COPYING
 /nix/config.h
 /nix/config.h.in
-/nix/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc
-/nix/nix-setuid-helper/nix-setuid-helper.cc
-/nix/scripts/authenticate
-/nix/scripts/list-runtime-roots
-/nix/scripts/offload
-/nix/scripts/substitute
 /po/doc/*.mo
 /po/guix/*.gmo
 /po/guix/*.insert-header