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

The checked-in, plain-vanilla version of app/web.config should be generic enough to work on all developer machines, and be kept up to date with any new setting changes, etc. If you require a specific set of settings for dev/test/production settings, check in separate files with those settings, as GateKiller stated, with some sort of naming convention, though I usually go with "web.prod.config", as not to change the file extension.