Keep settings in branch

Question

I begin to use git for software development.

I have a project on github. This project also involves some user-settings stored in dedicated settings-files.

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Answer 1

In your personal branch, you could keep:

• the GitHub config file unchanged (with no value), but with a different name (config.template for example)
• a "value file" with your personal value
• a "smudge" script able to generate the actual config file using the template one and your personal values

That script is triggered on any git checkout as a content filter driver.

That way, you can merge master onto your personal branch as many time as you want, your config values will not be modified.