diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4167c9168a4..abf7f254dd1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,16 +5,24 @@ docs/schema.json
 # Ignore redis binary dump (dump.rdb) files
 *.rdb
 
-# Miscellaneous files
+# No node modules
+node_modules/**
 
-node_modules
+# No editor related files
 .idea
+.vscode
+
+# Don't upload configuration files
 .env
+
+# Ignore uploads
 image/**
 images/**
 video/**
 videos/**
-.vscode
+
+# Don't ignore any .gitignore files in any location
+!.gitignore
 
 # Added as the documentation only refers to npm, not yarn and pnpm. 
 yarn.lock
@@ -29,10 +37,10 @@ serviceAccountKey.json
 cert.pem
 key.pem
 csr.pem
+
 # Added FNM configuration files
 .node-version
 
-# MacOS
-
+# MacOS files
 .DS_STORE
 
diff --git a/image/.gitignore b/image/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/videos/.gitignore b/videos/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d