diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 0213e2a03f260331139d4b10befe6139bd114f9b..94af330f02015c9a87d80c74d9a1fe07a91fb191 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@
 ^Rplots\.pdf$
 ^ci$
 ^data-raw$
+^revdep$
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5eb9ae2487a29398fd86791b85cf36ef46b8763e..b9e05842088f86b33e293868b0b28f461db25096 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ packrat/lib*/
 *.pdf
 !man/figures/*.pdf
 
+# revdep
+/revdep/
 
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 ### Generic .gitignore for R (source: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/R.gitignore) ###