diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 098e84c..d8ad4d3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .keyring
 .keyring/
+.nixos-switch-log
 users/blake/dotfiles/zsh/zplug
 users/blake/dotfiles/zsh/.zsh_history
 users/blake/dotfiles/zsh/.zcompdump
diff --git a/rebuild.sh b/rebuild.sh
index e5ce580..f2d37bd 100755
--- a/rebuild.sh
+++ b/rebuild.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pushd ~/.nix
 # alejandra . &>/dev/null
 git diff -U0 *.nix
 echo "nixos rebuilding..."
-sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake ~/.nix#snowbelle &>nixos-switch.log || (
+sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake ~/.nix#snowbelle &>.nixos-switch-log || (
  cat nixos-switch.log | grep --color error && false)
 gen=$(nixos-rebuild list-generations | grep current)
 git commit -am "$gen"