diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6a8dae863..c2fc6512f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,88 +1,8 @@
-*.Plo
-*.Po
-*.a
-*.d
-*.la
-*.lo
-*.o
-*.exe
-
 *~
 
 .#*
 .stgit*
-.deps
-.dirstamp
 
-tags
-
-/Makefile
-/Makefile.in
-/aclocal.m4
-/autom4te.cache
-/config.h
-/config.h.in
-/config.log
-/config.mk
-/config.status
-/config_detected.h
-/config_detected.mk
-/configure
-/configure.lineno
-/depmode
-/libtool
-/ltmain.sh
-/mkinstalldirs
 /output/
-/src/mpd
-/systemd/system/mpd.service
-/systemd/user/mpd.service
-/stamp-h1
-
-/src/dsd2pcm/dsd2pcm
-/src/win32/mpd_win32_rc.rc
-
-/doc/doxygen.conf
-/doc/protocol.html
-/doc/protocol
-/doc/user
-/doc/developer
-/doc/sticker
-/doc/api
-
-/test/software_volume
-/test/run_convert
-/test/run_decoder
-/test/read_tags
-/test/run_filter
-/test/run_encoder
-/test/run_output
-/test/read_conf
-/test/run_input
-/test/read_mixer
-/test/dump_playlist
-/test/run_normalize
-/test/tmp
-/test/run_inotify
-/test/test_queue_priority
-/test/test_protocol
-/test/run_ntp_server
-/test/run_resolver
-/test/run_tcp_connect
-/test/test_pcm
-/test/dump_rva2
-/test/dump_text_file
-/test/test_util
-/test/test_byte_reverse
-/test/test_mixramp
-/test/test_vorbis_encoder
-/test/DumpDatabase
-
-/lib/
-
-/*.tar.gz
-/*.tar.bz2
-/*.tar.xz
-/mpd-*/
 
 __pycache__/
diff --git a/android/.gitignore b/android/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 796b96d1c..000000000
--- a/android/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/build
diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 8a1ac398b..000000000
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-set -e
-
-rm -rf config.cache build
-mkdir build
-
-aclocal -I m4 $ACLOCAL_FLAGS
-autoheader
-automake --add-missing $AUTOMAKE_FLAGS
-autoconf
diff --git a/doc/.gitignore b/doc/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ab763002..000000000
--- a/doc/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-/html/
-/doctrees/
diff --git a/test/.gitignore b/test/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index a411aa32e..000000000
--- a/test/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-/run_neighbor_explorer
-/ReadApeTags