diff --git a/lib/Perl/LanguageServer/Workspace.pm b/lib/Perl/LanguageServer/Workspace.pm
index 9c35bca..cc9944a 100644
--- a/lib/Perl/LanguageServer/Workspace.pm
+++ b/lib/Perl/LanguageServer/Workspace.pm
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use File::Basename ;
 use Coro ;
 use Coro::AIO ;
 use Data::Dump qw{dump} ;
+use Fcntl qw(:DEFAULT :mode);
 
 with 'Perl::LanguageServer::SyntaxChecker' ;
 with 'Perl::LanguageServer::Parser' ;
@@ -153,6 +154,14 @@ sub _build_state_dir
     $rootpath .= '/.vscode/perl-lang' ;
     print STDERR "state_dir = $rootpath\n" ;
     $self -> mkpath ($rootpath) ;
+    my $ignore = $rootpath . '/.gitignore' ;
+    aio_stat($ignore);
+    if (! -f _)
+        {
+        my $fh = aio_open($ignore, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0644);
+        aio_write($fh, undef, undef, "*\n", 0);
+        aio_close($fh);
+        }
 
     return $rootpath ;
     }