diff --git a/quartz/build.ts b/quartz/build.ts
index 33dff4d5f..db1ed25da 100644
--- a/quartz/build.ts
+++ b/quartz/build.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ import { options } from "./util/sourcemap"
 import { Mutex } from "async-mutex"
 import DepGraph from "./depgraph"
 import { getStaticResourcesFromPlugins } from "./plugins"
-import loadIgnorePatterns from "./util/loadIgnorePatterns"
 
 type Dependencies = Record<string, DepGraph<FilePath> | null>
 
@@ -70,11 +69,9 @@ async function buildQuartz(argv: Argv, mut: Mutex, clientRefresh: () => void) {
   console.log(`Cleaned output directory \`${output}\` in ${perf.timeSince("clean")}`)
 
   perf.addEvent("glob")
-  const allFiles = await glob("**/*.*", argv.directory, [
-    ...cfg.configuration.ignorePatterns,
-    ...loadIgnorePatterns(),
-  ])
-  const fps = allFiles.filter((fp) => fp.endsWith(".md")).sort()
+  const gitIgnoreFilter = await isGitIgnored()
+  const allFiles = await glob("**/*.*", argv.directory, [...cfg.configuration.ignorePatterns])
+  const fps = allFiles.filter((fp) => !gitIgnoreFilter(fp) && fp.endsWith(".md")).sort()
   console.log(
     `Found ${fps.length} input files from \`${argv.directory}\` in ${perf.timeSince("glob")}`,
   )
diff --git a/quartz/util/loadIgnorePatterns.ts b/quartz/util/loadIgnorePatterns.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a65175c5..000000000
--- a/quartz/util/loadIgnorePatterns.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-import * as fs from "fs"
-import * as path from "path"
-
-function loadIgnorePatterns(): string[] {
-  const gitignorePath = path.join(process.cwd(), ".gitignore")
-  if (!fs.existsSync(gitignorePath)) {
-    return []
-  }
-
-  const gitignoreContent = fs.readFileSync(gitignorePath, "utf-8")
-  return gitignoreContent
-    .split("\n")
-    .map((line) => line.trim())
-    .filter((line) => line !== "" && !line.startsWith("#"))
-}
-
-export default loadIgnorePatterns