diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index c192f18da7..fcc4f85125 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ build/
 .coverage
 .tox/
 docs/_build
-Dockerfile
+# Dockerfile # We'd like to ignore this, but it messes up scm_version's detection because it thinks the checkout is dirty