Using github to host public git repositories whilst ensuring that sensitive data files remain untracked

Question

My app is hosted on Heroku and I have a public github repo too.

My app has a config file containing my amazon S3 credentials. It\'s important to ensure that the fil

Answer 1

in SVN this is called 'ignoring files' so I assume it will be something similar in GIT - I don't use GIT so don't quote me on this, but I've found this reference on the GITHub website:

http://github.com/guides/ignore-for-git

Hope that helps