diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cc552f71..7099817b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,3 +16,5 @@ obj-*
 
 rpm/BUILD*
 rpm/*RPMS
+
+src
diff --git a/script/bootstrap b/script/bootstrap
index c10c2912..79ae4be0 100755
--- a/script/bootstrap
+++ b/script/bootstrap
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# Only set GOPATH on non-Windows platforms as Windows can't do the symlinking
+# that we need.
+if [ -z "$GOPATH" ] && [ uname -s | grep -vq "_NT-" ]; then
+  export GOPATH="$(pwd)"
+  mkdir -p src/github.com/github
+  [ -h src/github.com/github/git-lfs ] ||
+    ln -s "$GOPATH" src/github.com/github/git-lfs
+fi
 
 script/fmt
-rm -rf `pwd`/bin/*
+rm -rf bin/*
 go run script/*.go -cmd build "$@"