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

The non-DVCS way to handle it is to set up your build process to read the connection strings from separate config file and then preprocess it during the build process (in java you could use ant or maven to filter from a properties file, I don't know about MS-land).