diff --git a/pkg.nix b/pkg.nix
index d3b65a64f..dcf508fa5 100644
--- a/pkg.nix
+++ b/pkg.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
-{ nixpkgs ? import ./nixpkgs.nix {} }:
-let inherit (nixpkgs) pkgs; in
+{ nixpkgs ? import ./nixpkgs.nix {}
+,
+}:
+let
+  inherit (builtins) filterSource elem not;
+  inherit (nixpkgs) pkgs;
+  gitignoreSource = (import (pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "hercules-ci";
+    repo = "gitignore";
+    rev = "f9e996052b5af4032fe6150bba4a6fe4f7b9d698";
+    sha256 = "0jrh5ghisaqdd0vldbywags20m2cxpkbbk5jjjmwaw0gr8nhsafv";
+    # date = 2019-09-18T15:15:15+02:00;
+  }) { inherit (pkgs) lib; }).gitignoreSource;
+in
 import (pkgs.haskellPackages.haskellSrc2nix {
   name = "xanthous";
-  src = ./.;
+  src = gitignoreSource ./.;
   extraCabal2nixOptions = "--hpack";
 })