diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b6f65cc6..96c64b97 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
-/target
-/.project
-/.classpath
-/.settings
-/PDFA*.pdf
+.project
+.classpath
+.settings/
+PDFA*.pdf
+target/
+pom.xml.tag
+pom.xml.releaseBackup
+pom.xml.next
+release.properties
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..217228c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+PDFA3
+=====