diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f6c9813ed5efe30d0de040ae30670b931e2699fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+*.pyc
+.idea/
+*~
+*.swp
+deepspeed/version_info.py