diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 95dd022ba..cb2ac82fb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -35,6 +35,6 @@
 .idea/
 .vscode/
 
-# Build folders
-cmake-build-*/
-build/
+# Build folders.
+# This rule ignores any folder in the project root that contains "build"
+/*build*/