diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index da8168b..e9d597e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,28 +1,4 @@
-# CVS default ignores begin
-tags
-TAGS
-.make.state
-.nse_depinfo
-*~
-\#*
-.#*
-,*
-_$*
-*$
-*.old
-*.bak
-*.BAK
-*.orig
-*.rej
-.del-*
-*.a
-*.olb
-*.o
-*.obj
-*.so
-*.exe
-*.Z
-*.elc
-*.ln
-core
-# CVS default ignores end
+# Gettext file is autogenerated by make
+# => ignore it
+# run "make all" to generate a new one and upload it to translingo
+/messages.po
diff --git a/tmp/Makefile b/tmp/Makefile
index 294a5b8..697293f 100644
--- a/tmp/Makefile
+++ b/tmp/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ DATE=`date "+%Y%m%d"`
 
 all:
 	cvs -d /var/lib/cvs checkout cacert
-	tar cjvf ../tarballs/cacert-${DATE}.tar.bz2 --exclude CVS cacert
+	tar cjvf ../tarballs/cacert-${DATE}.tar.bz2 \
+		--exclude CVS --exclude '*.po' cacert
 	rm ../tarballs/current.tar.bz2
 	ln -s cacert-${DATE}.tar.bz2 ../tarballs/current.tar.bz2
 	tar cvjf ../tarballs/cacert-cvs.tar.bz2 /var/lib/cvs/cacert