diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 040df3eafd264e3c23a2705c787eb35188b29e3e..bfc6172a4e7cb36f8658bcb75abd9101040a9ba9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /var/spack/stage
 /var/spack/cache
 *.pyc
-/opt/
+/opt
 *~
 .DS_Store
 .idea