From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 05:43:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Configurable filename for what is now .gitignore
Message-ID: <20140830054312.GA28512@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAEp_DRDCQqkwL1N-PemLtOvPEv-xfBW4MatAOomwi+my9QeK8g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Bostjan Skufca wrote:

> Git is great for tracking code development, but when deploying
> mentioned code by using git itself, various configuration files must
> be created additionally, which are normally .gitignored, for various
> reasons (code portability, sensitive data, etc). There is currently no
> simple way of tracking changes to those critical configuration files
> (at least none that I am aware of).
>
> One way to approach this would be tracking those changes in separate
> git repository.

Have you seen zit
<https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools#Zit>?

Curious,
Jonathan