diff --git a/_examples/http-client/.gitignore b/_examples/http-client/.gitignore
index 796b96d..e69de29 100644
--- a/_examples/http-client/.gitignore
+++ b/_examples/http-client/.gitignore
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/build
diff --git a/_examples/http-client/build/.gitignore b/_examples/http-client/build/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..071ca07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_examples/http-client/build/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Keep the directory but ignore all files. Dir is required to exist by the build process
+*
+!.gitignore