diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index aae82f1d705e91c4a1a65ba4e75783324fd4025f..eb06f09d1853c073da780dc5d14b6e86cfcbfc16 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -127,8 +127,3 @@ video_prediction_tools/HPC_scripts/**
 video_prediction_tools/nonHPC_scripts/**
 !video_prediction_tools/nonHPC_scripts/*_template.sh
 
-# Ignore datasplit config files
-video_prediction_tools/data_split/**
-!video_prediction_tools/data_split/datasplit_template.json
-!video_prediction_tools/data_split/cv_test.json 
-!video_predcition_tools/Zam347_scripts/config_train.py
diff --git a/video_prediction_tools/data_split/era5/datasplit_template.json b/video_prediction_tools/data_split/era5/datasplit_template.json
index e3067e3293674b2d27515640c5f42e665483d379..360748fb115ab0cec8b7617e664fb9b8af6d6c41 100644
--- a/video_prediction_tools/data_split/era5/datasplit_template.json
+++ b/video_prediction_tools/data_split/era5/datasplit_template.json
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@
 #
 # Explanation: In the following, the data of the whole year 2015 and the first half of 2016 is used for training,
 #              while the data of 2017 and 2018 are used for validation and testing, respectively.
-#              Be aware that this is a prue data file, i.e. do not make use of any Python-functions such as np.range or similar here!
+#              Be aware that this is a pure data file, i.e. do not make use of any Python-functions
+#              such as np.range or similar here!
 {
     "train":{ 
              "2015":[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12],
-	     "2016":[1,2,3,4,5,6]
+	         "2016":[1,2,3,4,5,6]
              },
      "val":
              {