From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0440E2095B for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:30:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751107AbdCROaN (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:30:13 -0400 Received: from lang.hm ([66.167.227.134]:54125 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751105AbdCRO3w (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:29:52 -0400 Received: from dlang-laptop ([10.2.0.162]) by bifrost.lang.hm (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id v2IEToax005778 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2017 06:29:50 -0800 Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 07:29:50 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang X-X-Sender: dlang@dlang-laptop To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Is there a way to have a local version of a header file? Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20.17 (DEB 179 2016-10-28) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org for an embedded project built inside the Arduino IDE, (alternate firmware for a home automation project) there is a need to set a number of parameters that we really don't want in the main repo (wifi network IDs/passwords) right now, we have these things set as #defines in a header file. We need to distribute a base version of this file for new people to get started. Is there any way to have git define a file in such a way that if it doesn't exist in the worktree it gets populated, but if it does exist it doesn't get overwritten? (as I type this, I'm thinking a trigger may work, but we need it to work on Linux, Windows and OSX) Any thoughts on a sane way to handle this situation? David Lang