From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniele Segato Subject: Re: Locally manage user/branch setting files without pushing them remotely Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:29:46 +0100 Message-ID: <9accb4400911120129h54609846jac9eb3b6cb07b792@mail.gmail.com> References: <9accb4400911110401g5c44d011u50cafcfe736a2ec6@mail.gmail.com> <20091111192449.GH27518@vidovic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Git Mailing List To: Nicolas Sebrecht X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 12 10:30:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N8W0t-0007Yi-TX for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:30:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751979AbZKLJ3p (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:29:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751941AbZKLJ3o (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:29:44 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:54974 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751806AbZKLJ3o (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:29:44 -0500 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so1970175bwz.21 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:29:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=6u61KYUdkBT6A7i2gndJwExSG4/Y9t/MIr0Q/R9LOqo=; b=oy8RL1T3KQ8soqPmU1iPXJsXEtTVMwcyAMdvHz4MQeU8nkXQxApBx1MWl5XGq1H4GN R+dUF/404bLpEHNzW48FOZsZXr9anh2f7WRSibJ0NmL2++7cJFa4WEKmdQmqWdhV/8qv BZBtTDL2lr9HuLU71lqqRgFv4JQQ7R9kmyVn4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=jTJbpA0fZpMYk7VVxcSAZeFQ3loELoc8u6OM45Kqm7OEIlT/42ewR/dvLpKBwUumjT 6doS5zGKPICRj1wJI7zsqzM577crW9SpG0k8R6SDYpoyVejlDR3CcXBq1C6YeHTxIl/0 Wo5Dvww1/aJJE3XIR0zwQbd5hjznP+Nt/NdPU= Received: by 10.204.33.193 with SMTP id i1mr2859933bkd.75.1258018187588; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:29:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20091111192449.GH27518@vidovic> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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