diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index df1a76a..040f57c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 !example-*.yml
 !.*.yml
 
+# Ignore automatically generated version for normal commits. This is bumped manually when needed.
+__init__.py
+
 env/
 build/
 __pycache__/