diff --git a/bin/create_release_tarball_excludes b/bin/create_release_tarball_excludes
index 3059128cc..2e53400a0 100755
--- a/bin/create_release_tarball_excludes
+++ b/bin/create_release_tarball_excludes
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ ROCgdb/sim
 flang/test
 hcc
 .git
+.gitmodules
 llgo
 lldb
 build