What to do with public directory

[abea]

Pulling down the master branch with the most recent commit results in an instantly dirty master branch. We need to update the ignore file or commit what's in the public directory (probably the former).

In chat, Bob suggested added this kind of thing to the ignore file rather than watching the whole directory:

public/css/*.css
public/css/*.map
public/js/*.js

Does that sound right? We're just looking to ignore compiled files, correct?