web.config and app.config machine-specific settings in git

Question

We have multiple teams of developers in different offices, and they need different values for a number of configuration setting in our projects\' web.config and

Answer 1

Did you consider a content filter driver?

That would mean, on each git checkout, the smudge script would generate the actual config file based on:

• a config template file (with config value placeholder like @@A_PARAM_VALUE@@)
• one of the config value file (each developer can keep versioned his/her own config file values)

That avoid any merge issue and gitignore settings: each "config value files" are different and remain separate.
This is also compatible with other config generation solution like ConfigGen mentioned in pms1969's answer.