diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 59b038409a22d88b3de6a961490a09d0d2c395fd..80c0296e5955fbcb6b1e8a8ec125498f52827915 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     "require": {
         "php": ">=7.0",
         "composer-plugin-api": "^1.0.0",
-        "lakedrops/composer-json-utils": "^1.3.2"
+        "lakedrops/composer-json-utils": "^1.4.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "composer/composer": "^1.5.0",
diff --git a/src/Handler.php b/src/Handler.php
index b00ca9da2bf4eaa260650159bd7f1f7d1271e5a2..08d05eea64f6e63c84d89e09a2edfd4e376c599d 100644
--- a/src/Handler.php
+++ b/src/Handler.php
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class Handler extends BaseHandler {
     }
     $file = getcwd() . '/.ahoy.yml';
     file_put_contents($file, $rendered = Yaml::dump($ahoy, 9, 2));
-    $this->git('ignore ' . '.ahoy.yml');
+    $this->gitIgnore('.ahoy.yml');
   }
 
 }