diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 69fd781b9..9d5231be1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
 
 # mkdocs files
 .cache/
-docs/overrides/
+/docs/overrides
 
 # build
-build/
-site/
-./utils/
+/build
+/site
+/utils
 
 # test script
 test.sh
diff --git a/utils b/utils
deleted file mode 160000
index 67ba5be2b..000000000
--- a/utils
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 67ba5be2bf7160fcf96f7293473d3be5bc6d152d