diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 74bfca985..90864dc0f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ config/deriv
 docs/docker/buildroot-config-src
 docs/docker/testvector-generation
 sim/questa/cov
-sim/questa/covhtmlreport/
+sim/covhtmlreport/
 sim/questa/logs
 sim/questa/wkdir
 sim/questa/ucdb
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 050f066fa..2431614d1 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ combine_functcov:
 	grep "Total Coverage By Instance" ${SIM}/questa/functcov/functcov.ucdb.log
 
 remove_functcov_artifacts:
-	rm ${SIM}/questa/riscv.ucdb ${SIM}/questa/functcov.log covhtmlreport/ ${SIM}/questa/functcov_logs/ ${SIM}/questa/functcov_ucdbs/ ${SIM}/questa/functcov/ -rf
+	rm ${SIM}/questa/riscv.ucdb ${SIM}/questa/functcov.log ${SIM}/questa/covhtmlreport/ ${SIM}/questa/functcov_logs/ ${SIM}/questa/functcov_ucdbs/ ${SIM}/questa/functcov/ -rf
 
 collect_functcov: remove_functcov_artifacts riscvdv_functcov combine_functcov