diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 0834a8b..d797cd8 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
 ^CITATION\.cff$
 ^tools$
+^doc$
+^Meta$
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8cf33d4..310a47d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
 # RStudio files
 .Rproj.user/
 
+# vignette building
+/doc/
+/Meta/
+
 # produced vignettes
 vignettes/*.html
 vignettes/*.pdf