How do you deal with configuration files in source control?

Question

Let\'s say you have a typical web app and with a file configuration.whatever. Every developer working on the project will have one version for their dev boxes, there will be

Answer 1

My team keeps separate versions of the config files for each environment (web.config.dev, web.config.test, web.config.prod). Our deployment scripts copy out the correct version, renaming it to web.config. This way, we have full version control on the config files for each environment, can easily perform a diff, etc.