diff --git a/mavenplugins/tycho/tycho-dependencies-m2repo/.gitignore b/mavenplugins/tycho/tycho-dependencies-m2repo/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..14a1cbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mavenplugins/tycho/tycho-dependencies-m2repo/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+/.cache
+/.meta
+/p2