diff --git a/.hgignore b/.hgignore
index 92437a1f..a7bb07c5 100644
--- a/.hgignore
+++ b/.hgignore
@@ -10,8 +10,13 @@ config.log
 config.status
 config.status.lineno
 autom4te.cache
+tags
+TAGS
+**/tags
+**/TAGS
 lib/.deps
 lib/*.o
+lib/alloca.h
 lib/libgnu.a
 lib/unistd.h
 lib/stdbool.h
@@ -32,8 +37,6 @@ src/config.h
 src/config.h.in
 src/wget
 src/cscope.out
-src/tags
-src/TAGS
 src/libunittest.a
 src/version.c
 doc/stamp-vti