From: Daniele Segato Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:29:46 GMT Subject: Re: Locally manage user/branch setting files without pushing them remotely Message-ID: <9accb4400911120129h54609846jac9eb3b6cb07b792@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091111192449.GH27518@vidovic> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > This looks to _not_ be a piece of the development project. Settings used > for the tests suites, company where you work, etc _are_ clones (from the > abstract POV, at least) of the maintainer public repository. > > If you want to track changes of settings in a per-production-repo basis, > you should do it _out_ of your main development repository. The latter > should have a publishable template instead (eg. "user = user_login", > "password = set_your_password"). you are probably right but even if I place this files outside my repository I still have to modify them manually.. it's the same of having them into the repo but in .gitignore we are customizing a third party product and I can't change the way it is build up. I don't think that this situation is so uncommon anyway. Regards, Daniele