diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c5d3f7c62b..0f96fb3ee1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ public/js/bundle*
 *.map
 
 // revision manifest
+server/rev-manifest.json
+server/manifests/*
+!server/manifests/README.md
+
 public/js/main*
 public/js/commonFramework*
 public/js/sandbox*
diff --git a/server/README.md b/server/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b675cf5fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Everything to due with the server
+
+One file that is not tracked here is `rev-manifest.json`.
+It is generated at runtime and its contents changes as the contents
+of client side files change.
diff --git a/server/manifests/README.md b/server/manifests/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6b4af2b5ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/manifests/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+This folder contains a list of json files representing the name
+of revisioned client files. It is empty due to the fact that the
+files are generated at runtime and their content is determined by
+the content of the files they are derived from.
+
+Since the build process is not exactly the same on every machine,
+this files are not tracked in github otherwise conflicts arise when
+building on our servers.
diff --git a/server/manifests/css-manifest.json b/server/manifests/css-manifest.json
deleted file mode 100644
index dfac7264c7..0000000000
--- a/server/manifests/css-manifest.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "main.css": "main-6645810137.css"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/server/manifests/dependents-manifest.json b/server/manifests/dependents-manifest.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 53bc4daf4b..0000000000
--- a/server/manifests/dependents-manifest.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "commonFramework.js": "commonFramework-f2a3a38931.js"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/server/manifests/js-manifest.json b/server/manifests/js-manifest.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 802a1037a5..0000000000
--- a/server/manifests/js-manifest.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "iFrameScripts.js": "iFrameScripts-fee9f17adb.js",
-  "main.js": "main-c4d88948ff.js",
-  "plugin.js": "plugin-4564d5d4ec.js"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/server/manifests/react-manifest.json b/server/manifests/react-manifest.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 73bc562cd3..0000000000
--- a/server/manifests/react-manifest.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "bundle.js": "bundle-5c9b5836a9.js"
-}
\ No newline at end of file