diff --git a/zlibWrapper/.gitignore b/zlibWrapper/.gitignore
index 289635d65..b037ae6f2 100644
--- a/zlibWrapper/.gitignore
+++ b/zlibWrapper/.gitignore
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
+# object artifacts
+*.o
+
 # Default result files
 _*
-example.*
-!examples/example.c
+example
 example_zstd.*
 example_gz.*
-fitblk.*
-!examples/fitblk.c
+fitblk
 fitblk_zstd.*
-zwrapbench.*
-!examples/zwrapbench.c
+zwrapbench
 foo.gz
 
 minigzip