diff --git a/conf/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/.gitignore b/conf/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index e87daf6de8a3..000000000000
--- a/conf/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# We want to ignore files in this directory which we do in the
-# top-level .gitignore file but we still want this directory to
-# be automatically created.