diff --git a/hermit/.gitignore b/hermit/.gitignore
index 521bfe5a8..18fe4a93c 100644
--- a/hermit/.gitignore
+++ b/hermit/.gitignore
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ usr/benchmarks/RCCE_pingpong
 usr/benchmarks/stream
 usr/benchmarks/hg
 usr/benchmarks/netio
+usr/benchmarks/basic
 usr/openmpbench/schedbench
 usr/openmpbench/syncbench
 usr/openmpbench/taskbench