git: have different .gitignore file for each remote

Question

I have a remote repo in which I want to commit certain files (the compiled files to deploy them on a cloud computing platform), but I don\'t want to deploy them on github...

Answer 1

I figure out a way to do this.

In my case, I needed to synchronize the project with heroku and github (as public repo).

But some files with private information were not interesting to be shared in a public repository

Usually a simple project would have the following folder structure

Project folder (remote heroku)
    - .git
    - .gitignore
    - (folders and files)

What I did was add one more level, and in it create another git repository, with a gitignore that would omit some files from my project.

Project public (remote github)
    - .git
    - .gitignore
    - Project folder (remote heroku)
        - .git
        - .gitignore
        - (folders and files)

So this is not a git repository with two remote repositories with different gitignores.

There are two different repositories.

On the innermost I only exclude the files generated by the IDE and some files generated at runtime.

At the outermost level, I exclude all files that can not be make public.