Mercurial workflow question (how to handle Config files)

Question

I have a long standing problem: at work we\'re using mercurial as a DSCM, but we can\'t figure out how to keep our config files in sync.

The problem is that we want

Answer 1

I don't know the details of your config files, but if you can include other files, then create a config_local file to hold the developer-specific settings. Add that file to .hgignore. Common settings go into the main config file, which then includes the config_local file.

As Ken says, if inclusion isn't an option, then preprocessing during the build step may be the way to go.