What is the right way to maintain a “version for the server” - with only config files changed, in Git?

Question

I sometimes work with Codeigniter, and after I\'m done developing on the local site, I need to migrate the files to the server. All the files in the /config/ fo

Answer 1

You could keep versioned:

• two "value config files", with the right values for each environment
• a template config file, with value placeholder in it (for instance, @@PORT_NUMBER@@)
• a script able to generate the actual config file depending on the current environment
• a content filter driver which, on checkout, will trigger the script in order to generate the right config file.

Note: that supposes your template config file has a recognizable content (the filter doesn't have a name or path of the file). See "Git equivalent of subversion's $URL$ keyword expansion" for more on the limitation of git content filter driver).