diff --git a/cli/deps.ts b/cli/deps.ts
index c76226b63c..396a2b21f8 100644
--- a/cli/deps.ts
+++ b/cli/deps.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import Gitignore from "npm:gitignore-fs";
+
 // windmill
 export { setClient } from "https://deno.land/x/windmill@v1.226.1/mod.ts";
 export * from "https://deno.land/x/windmill@v1.226.1/windmill-api/index.ts";
@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ export * as cbor from "https://deno.land/x/cbor@v1.4.1/index.js";
 export { default as Murmurhash3 } from "https://deno.land/x/murmurhash@v1.0.0/mod.ts";
 export { default as microdiff } from "https://deno.land/x/microdiff@v1.3.1/index.ts";
 export { default as objectHash } from "https://deno.land/x/object_hash@2.0.3.1/mod.ts";
-export { default as gitignore_parser } from "npm:gitignore-parser";
+export * as ignore from "npm:ignore";
 export { default as JSZip } from "npm:jszip@3.7.1";
 export * as log from "https://deno.land/std@0.186.0/log/mod.ts";
 export {
diff --git a/cli/sync.ts b/cli/sync.ts
index ec2ad7f535..ee409aa392 100644
--- a/cli/sync.ts
+++ b/cli/sync.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import {
   Command,
   Confirm,
   ensureDir,
-  gitignore_parser,
+  ignore,
   JSZip,
   path,
   ScriptService,
@@ -439,15 +439,15 @@ export const isWhitelisted = (p: string) => {
 };
 export async function ignoreF() {
   try {
-    const ignore: {
-      accepts(file: string): boolean;
-      denies(file: string): boolean;
-    } = gitignore_parser.compile(await Deno.readTextFile(".wmillignore"));
-
+    const ignoreContent = await Deno.readTextFile(".wmillignore");
+    const ign = ignore.default().add(ignoreContent);
+    // new Gitignore.default({ initialRules: ignoreContent.split("\n")}).ignoreContent).compile();
     return (p: string, isDirectory: boolean) => {
+      p = path.relative(Deno.cwd(), p);
+
       return (
         !isWhitelisted(p) &&
-        (isNotWmillFile(p, isDirectory) || (!isDirectory && ignore.denies(p)))
+        (isNotWmillFile(p, isDirectory) || (!isDirectory && ign.ignores(p)))
       );
     };
   } catch {