diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 292117e..d821a81 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-node_modules/
+# No trailing slash: `node_modules/` matches directories only, so a *symlink*
+# named node_modules is not ignored by it and `git add -A` will commit it.
+node_modules
 *.log
 .DS_Store
 
diff --git a/node_modules b/node_modules
deleted file mode 120000
index 3efdaf0..0000000
--- a/node_modules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/home/anthony/src/profullstack/cli-tools/node_modules
\ No newline at end of file