diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5386990e97c6..c33d35450a65 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ sdk/cosmosdb/cosmos/lib
 *.test.js
 *.test.js.map
 *lintReport.html
+tsdoc-metadata.json
 
 # autorest generated files
 swagger/*.json
diff --git a/sdk/core/core-rest-pipeline/tsdoc-metadata.json b/sdk/core/core-rest-pipeline/tsdoc-metadata.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c2324728e1b..000000000000
--- a/sdk/core/core-rest-pipeline/tsdoc-metadata.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-// This file is read by tools that parse documentation comments conforming to the TSDoc standard.
-// It should be published with your NPM package.  It should not be tracked by Git.
-{
-  "tsdocVersion": "0.12",
-  "toolPackages": [
-    {
-      "packageName": "@microsoft/api-extractor",
-      "packageVersion": "7.7.11"
-    }
-  ]
-}