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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 624719e..0af3209 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,26 @@
-.latest.template
-.release.template
-.topnews.template
+####
+# This file is used to ignore certain files in the repo, such as
+# anything that is generated by the build, etc.
+#
+# The SXEmacs website repo uses a single .gitignore, so please DO NOT
+# add any .gitignore files to any of the sub directories.
+#
+# NOTE! Please use 'git ls-files -i --exclude-standard' command after
+# changing this file, to see if there are any tracked files which get
+# ignored after the change.
+####
+
+## Editor backups etc
+*~
+*.orig
+\#*#
+
+## These are kept updated from hooks in another repo
+.*.template
 changes/ChangeLog
+rss
+
+## These are maintained by hand
 docs/cl
 docs/custom
 docs/dso
@@ -14,5 +33,14 @@ docs/sppm
 docs/sxemacs
 docs/term
 docs/widget
+webstats
+
+## Steve's hosting provider keeps adding these zero-length files
 favicon.*
-rss
+
+## Old tla habits are hard to break
+,,*
+++*
+
+## Exceptions
+!Images/favicon.png