git commit config on initial commit but never again?

Question

I have started to use git for my projects, when I create a project it has a config folder containing configuration files:

application/config/config.php
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Answer 1

You could, once versioned, update their index:

 git update-index --assume-unchanged application/config/config.php

Or you could even update the index more permently:

 git update-index --skip-worktree application/config/config.php

(as show in "git update-index --assume-unchanged and git reset")

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The other solution is to not version those final config file (since their content may vary as you pointed out), but to use a filter driver:

You would versioned:

• template files (application/config/config.tpl)
• config value files (one default, and other for your different environments)
• a script able to recognize the content of a config file (since it won't have its path) and generate the final config files according to the current environment.