diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4be675d6d..3631b43cd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ creds.json
 ExternalDNS
 docs/_site
 powershell.log
-zones/
-*.env
+integrationTest/env.sh
+/integrationTest/zones/*.zone
+/integrationTest/config/*.yaml
+env.sh
 certs/
diff --git a/integrationTest/config/README.txt b/integrationTest/config/README.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a401e7916
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integrationTest/config/README.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Git can't create an empty directory, so this file is here as a workaround.
+https://stackoverflow.com/questions/115983
diff --git a/integrationTest/zones/README.txt b/integrationTest/zones/README.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a401e7916
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integrationTest/zones/README.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Git can't create an empty directory, so this file is here as a workaround.
+https://stackoverflow.com/questions/115983
diff --git a/integrationTest/zones/example.com.zone b/integrationTest/zones/example.com.zone
deleted file mode 100644
index 7cf305dbd..000000000
--- a/integrationTest/zones/example.com.zone
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-$TTL 300
-@                IN SOA   DEFAULT_NOT_SET. DEFAULT_NOT_SET. 2018010281 3600 600 604800 1440
-                 IN NS    ns1.otherdomain.tld.
-                 IN NS    ns2.otherdomain.tld.