diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index b87e6ef8..31b0f398 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 # This helps to reduce the size of the Docker build context and to avoid
 # including potentially sensitive files.
+#
+# .git is needed during bootstrap.sh
 bin
 lib
 lib64
 node_modules
 user_dev
+.tox
+dist
+docs/build
+.pytest_cache