diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 00d66de3ed..a40d9e067c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# Docker project generated files to ignore
+#  if you want to ignore files created by your editor/tools,
+#  please consider a global .gitignore https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files
 .vagrant*
 bin
 docker/docker