diff --git a/apache-bookkeeper/data/.gitignore b/apache-bookkeeper/data/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fb05d77307
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apache-bookkeeper/data/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/bk/
diff --git a/apache-bookkeeper/data/bk1/.gitignore b/apache-bookkeeper/data/bk1/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..32c9297ccd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apache-bookkeeper/data/bk1/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/bookkeeper/
diff --git a/apache-bookkeeper/data/bk2/.gitignore b/apache-bookkeeper/data/bk2/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..32c9297ccd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apache-bookkeeper/data/bk2/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/bookkeeper/
diff --git a/apache-bookkeeper/data/zk/.gitignore b/apache-bookkeeper/data/zk/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0da095f9e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apache-bookkeeper/data/zk/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/myid
+/version-2/