diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9d78dc0f1dcdbf2fb092d4d69d5e75ee5100bace..39548e53ce43c63e08a25e379b22cf6bd4ac402a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ data/unified_datasets/personachat/original_data
 data/unified_datasets/wow/wizard_of_wikipedia
 data/unified_datasets/**/stat.txt
 data/unified_datasets/**/data
+data/*/dstc9*.json.zip
+data/crosswoz_en/.gitignore
 data/**/train.json
 data/**/val.json
 data/**/test.json
diff --git a/data/.gitignore b/data/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index f96d680e04cd73cdec1fcc01a6a379d590ef90de..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/data/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-*/dstc9*.json.zip