diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b8b70e1..354997b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -33,3 +33,5 @@ gn4_data/
 **/target/
 
 **/.git-versioned-pom.xml
+
+**/__pycache__
diff --git a/utilities/geonetwork-gcmd-extractor/.gitignore b/utilities/geonetwork-gcmd-extractor/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 1738f52..0000000
--- a/utilities/geonetwork-gcmd-extractor/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-.vscode
-.idea
-*.iml
-outputs/*.txt
-outputs/*.csv
-
-**/*#
-
-dev.py
-
-**/__pycache__
-
-pregenerated/*.csv
-pregenerated/*.txt
-