diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ccda204b..8978ea55 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 - Add ability to set `watch: true` in a task to automatically run it in watch
   mode (#231, #1361 by @andreynering).
+- Fixed a bug on the watch mode where paths that contained `.git` (like
+  `.github`), for example, were also being ignored (#1356 by @butuzov).
 - Fixed a nil pointer error when running a Taskfile with no contents (#1341,
   #1342 by @pd93).
 - Added a new [exit code](https://taskfile.dev/api/#exit-codes) (107) for when a
diff --git a/watch.go b/watch.go
index 64bad2f7..95fbb435 100644
--- a/watch.go
+++ b/watch.go
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ func shouldIgnoreFile(path string) bool {
 		"/.task",
 		"/.git",
 		"/.hg",
-		"/.node_modules",
+		"/node_modules",
 	}
 	for _, p := range ignorePaths {
 		if strings.Contains(path, fmt.Sprintf("%s/", p)) || strings.HasSuffix(path, p) {