diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 202fd074..890be94c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,113 +1,31 @@
-docs/source/generated
+# Exclude all
+/*
+/*/
+
+# Include project files
+!/.github
+!/docs
+!/scikeras
+!/tests
+!/pyproject.toml
+!/.gitignore
+!/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+!/codecov.yaml
+!/*.md
+!/*.rst
+!/LICENSE
 
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
 __pycache__/
 *.py[cod]
 *$py.class
 
-# C extensions
-*.so
-
-# Distribution / packaging
-.Python
-env/
-build/
-develop-eggs/
-dist/
-downloads/
-eggs/
-.eggs/
-lib/
-lib64/
-parts/
-sdist/
-var/
-wheels/
-*.egg-info/
-.installed.cfg
-*.egg
-
-# PyInstaller
-#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
-#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
-*.manifest
-*.spec
-
-# Installer logs
-pip-log.txt
-pip-delete-this-directory.txt
-
-# Unit test / coverage reports
-htmlcov/
-.tox/
-.coverage
-.coverage.*
-.cache
-nosetests.xml
-coverage.xml
-*.cover
-.hypothesis/
-.pytest_cache/
-
-# Translations
-*.mo
-*.pot
-
-# Django stuff:
-*.log
-local_settings.py
-
-# Flask stuff:
-instance/
-.webassets-cache
-
-# Scrapy stuff:
-.scrapy
-
-# Sphinx documentation
-docs/_build/
-
-# PyBuilder
-target/
-
-# Jupyter Notebook
-.ipynb_checkpoints
-
-# pyenv
-.python-version
-
-# celery beat schedule file
-celerybeat-schedule
-
-# SageMath parsed files
-*.sage.py
-
-# dotenv
-.env
-
-# virtualenv
-.venv
-venv/
-ENV/
-
-# Spyder project settings
-.spyderproject
-.spyproject
-
-# Rope project settings
-.ropeproject
-
-# mkdocs documentation
-/site
-
-# mypy
-.mypy_cache/
-
-# IDE settings
-.vscode/
 
 # MacOS files
 .DS_Store
 
 # Executed notebooks
-docs/source/notebooks/*.ipynb
+/docs/source/generated
+/docs/source/notebooks/*.ipynb
+**/.ipynb_checkpoints
+/docs/_build
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