diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c504d66d67..f3810662dc 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ vendor/assets/stylesheets/cartodb.*
 # cartodb.css is generated by update_cdb make task and is
 # used in cartodb/cartodb/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
 !vendor/assets/stylesheets/cartodb.css
+# carto-node dist file. This is generated by webpack.
+# It will be removed when using carto-node as an external dependency.
 vendor/assets/javascripts/carto-node/
 public/test_support.csv
 public/test_guess_country.csv