From: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:57:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature idea: Ignore content
Message-ID: <8c9a061001190857i12a8deeex74809ffd302bc54d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <f3271551001190529h389ce321k52dcca6b03e4e8f0@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 05:29, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Often, I find that I need to track a file which contains a small
> portion I don't want to track (read: line with a password). Instead of
> moving that out to a separate file and ignoring that file, is it a
> good idea to add a feature to Git to allow ignoring content instead of
> whole files? Since Git by nature tracks content, this shouldn't be too
> hard to implement, right?
>

Generally, the way I've seen this handled is by tracking an example
file, and ignoring the "real" file with the password.

Something like:
  config/database.example.yml <-- Tracked file, with a dummy password
& connection info.
  config/database.yml    <-- Ignored file, actually used by application.