diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0cc910a2..2bb45b4e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+* [#178](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-static/pull/178) Exclude unnecessary files when publishing the buildpack
 * [#177](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-static/pull/177) Make curl retry in case of a failed download
 * [#177](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-static/pull/177) Fix the printing of the installed nginx version
 * [#177](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-static/pull/177) Switch to the recommended S3 URL format
diff --git a/buildpack.toml b/buildpack.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d19cba94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildpack.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+[buildpack]
+name = "Static HTML"
+
+  [publish.Ignore]
+  files = [
+    ".github/",
+    "spec/",
+    ".gitignore",
+    ".rspec",
+    "circle.yml",
+    "Gemfile",
+    "Gemfile.lock",
+    "Makefile",
+    "Rakefile"
+  ]