diff --git a/example/logs/.gitignore b/example/logs/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..960fe795
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/logs/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*.txt
+
diff --git a/example/logs/ignored.txt b/example/logs/ignored.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29b..00000000