Git: Ignore files for public repository, but not for private

Question

I\'m deploying a Rails app on Heroku (for now) via git, and would also like to have a public version for people to look at. Some files are sensitive and should only be commi

Answer 1

A guy named David Albert wrote a tool called Junk to solve almost exactly this problem. It lets files from a separate “junk drawer” repository live alongside the ones in your main repository.

The private files will have separate commits from the public ones, but it might do the job.