diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9433f6529..c7c58db99 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@ nimble.develop
 nimble.paths
 go-libp2p-daemon/
 
-# Ignore all test build files in tests folder (auto generated when running tests), 
-# by ignoring anything that does not have following file name scheme:
-# has extension or is Dockerfile...
-/tests/*
-!/tests/*.*
-!/tests/Dockerfile
\ No newline at end of file
+# Ignore all test build files in tests folder (auto generated when running tests).
+# First rule (`tests/**/test*[^.]*`) will ignore all binaries: has prefix test +  does not have dot in name.
+# Second and third rules are here to un-ignores all files with extension and Docker file,
+# because it appears that vs code is skipping text search is some tests files without these rules.
+tests/**/test*[^.]* 
+!tests/**/*.*
+!tests/**/Dockerfile
\ No newline at end of file