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

If you use a branch named heroku as your "alternative master" branch (with sensitive data) and your old master branch without the sensitive data, then you could always do

git merge master

So you can push heroku branch to heroku not the master branch.