diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index dd8dfb14a9..32ef7919ab 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ examples/**/*.xml
 
 # Documentation builds
 docs/build
+docs/doxygen/xml
 docs/source/_images/*.pdf
 docs/source/_images/*.aux
 docs/source/pythonapi/generated/