diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7317c06261a7b1..fd60fdc93e4b62 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -342,9 +342,6 @@ jit32
 # performance testing sandbox
 sandbox
 
-#IL linker for testing
-linker
-
 # Symbolic link for the shared portion of CoreLib to make grep/findstr work for runtime devs
 #
 # On Windows, make your own by running these commands from the repo root:
@@ -365,4 +362,4 @@ src/coreclr/System.Private.CoreLib/common
 
 # Temporary artifacts from local libraries stress builds
 .dotnet-daily/
-run-stress-*
\ No newline at end of file
+run-stress-*