diff --git a/.coverage b/.coverage
deleted file mode 100644
index b7af7d0a349374c2744d7891f0f7d07282fcd980..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Binary files a/.coverage and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8b7676ee188350f764a61f230417df2457e392b7..f8d5ce7d0d80e38eb43bac369970f47124d8139c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -33,3 +33,5 @@ MANIFEST
 doc/build
 
 coverage_html_report
+.coverage
+