diff --git a/ci/travis_linux_script b/ci/travis_linux_script
index 82594770195aaebbdb68b9c09f6f86da5ed000d2..f80ac33c244a488d2595c05c44a222c084ff582c 100755
--- a/ci/travis_linux_script
+++ b/ci/travis_linux_script
@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ make -j2 install
 ./zig build --build-file ../build.zig test
 
 cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR
+rm .gitignore
 git clean -fd
-rm -rf build
 docker run -it --mount type=bind,source="$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR",target=/z ziglang/static-base:llvm6-1 -j2 $TRAVIS_COMMIT