diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 785934f46..9a12efbe5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # don't push these files to the repository
 
 .history
+.bash_history
 *.log
 *.eml
 *.o