diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6a16aa0f2..aec2939fa 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-06-30  İsmail Dönmez <ismail@namtrac.org>
+
+	* builds/toplevel.mk: We use git, not CVS, thus skip `.gitignore'.
+
 2011-06-29  Werner Lemberg  <wl@gnu.org>
 
 	Fix Savannah bug #33663.
diff --git a/builds/toplevel.mk b/builds/toplevel.mk
index d9fbee0b3..d552a4a17 100644
--- a/builds/toplevel.mk
+++ b/builds/toplevel.mk
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ dist:
 
 	currdir=`pwd` ; \
 	for f in `find . -wholename '*/.git' -prune \
-	                 -o -name .cvsignore \
+	                 -o -name .gitignore \
 	                 -o -type d \
 	                 -o -print` ; do \
 	  ln -s $$currdir/$$f tmp/$$f ; \