From: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature idea: Ignore content
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:57:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c9a061001190857i12a8deeex74809ffd302bc54d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-19 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-19 13:29 Feature idea: Ignore content Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-01-19 14:05 ` Peter Krefting
2010-01-19 19:14 ` Dirk Süsserott
2010-01-19 19:24 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-01-19 16:57 ` Jacob Helwig [this message]
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