diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 792483b..888739d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -160,4 +160,6 @@ cython_debug/
 #  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
 #.idea/
-bbsdb.pkl
+
+# Pickle files, specifically, bbsdb.pkl
+bbsdb.pkl