Committing Machine Specific Configuration Files

Question

A common scenario when I develop is that the codebase will have several config files which require machine specific settings. These files will be checked into Git and other

Answer 1

One possibility is to have the actual files in your .gitignore, but check in default configurations with a different extension. A typical example for a Rails app would be the config/database.yml file. We would check in config/database.yml.sample, and each developer creates their own config/database.yml which is already .gitignored.