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

Nowadays (2019) I use ENV vars for example in python/django, you can also add defaults to them. In the context of docker I can save the ENV vars in a docker-compose.yml file or an extra file which is ignored in version control.

# settings.py
import os
DEBUG = os.getenv('DJANGO_DEBUG') == 'True'
EMAIL_HOST = os.environ.get('DJANGO_EMAIL_HOST', 'localhost')