diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d859af..000000000
--- a/.env.example
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-TOKEN=secret
-YEAR=2022
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b4e7e1e..6969c26 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ target/
 .env
 
 # downloaded inputs
-src/inputs/
-!src/inputs/keep
+/src/inputs/*
+!/src/inputs/.keep
 
-src/test_inputs/
-!src/test_inputs/keep
+/src/test_inputs/*
+!/src/test_inputs/.keep
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 18ed0d3..057ed34 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Advent-of-Code {YEAR}
-*This is a dumbed down version of [fspoettel/advent-of-code-rust](https://github.com/fspoettel/advent-of-code-rust/blob/main/Cargo.toml) with some extra features*
+*This is a dumbed down version of [fspoettel/advent-of-code-rust](https://github.com/fspoettel/advent-of-code-rust) with some extra features*
 
 ## CLI
 ### Prepare
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index 000000000..e69de29
diff --git a/src/test_inputs/.keep b/src/test_inputs/.keep
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