diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 76b3d2861..7b1a9f9e3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -86,19 +86,3 @@ examples/jeopardy/results.txt
 
 poetry.lock
 poetry.toml
-
-# Test binaries
-/tests/test-grammar-parser
-/tests/test-llama-grammar
-/tests/test-double-float
-/tests/test-grad0
-/tests/test-opt
-/tests/test-quantize-fns
-/tests/test-quantize-perf
-/tests/test-sampling
-/tests/test-tokenizer-0-llama
-/tests/test-tokenizer-0-falcon
-/tests/test-tokenizer-1-llama
-/tests/test-tokenizer-1-bpe
-/tests/test-rope
-/tests/test-backend-ops
diff --git a/tests/.gitignore b/tests/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..59be43b99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*
+!*.*
diff --git a/tests/test-model-load-cancel.cpp b/tests/test-model-load-cancel.cpp
index cb3c012b9..926a305da 100644
--- a/tests/test-model-load-cancel.cpp
+++ b/tests/test-model-load-cancel.cpp
@@ -4,17 +4,17 @@
 #include <cstdlib>
 
 int main(void) {
-    auto model_path = "models/7B/ggml-model-f16.gguf";
-    auto file = fopen(model_path, "r");
+    const auto * model_path = "models/7B/ggml-model-f16.gguf";
+    auto * file = fopen(model_path, "r");
 
     if (file == nullptr) {
         fprintf(stderr, "no model at '%s' found\n", model_path);
         return EXIT_FAILURE;
-    } else {
-        fprintf(stderr, "using '%s'\n", model_path);
-        fclose(file);
     }
 
+    fprintf(stderr, "using '%s'\n", model_path);
+    fclose(file);
+
     llama_backend_init(false);
     auto params = llama_model_params{};
     params.use_mmap = false;