ignoring local config files in git

Question

There are some local files (that are part of our repository) in a rails app that I would like git to ignore. Basically, I'd like git to ignore all changes I make to anything in the config/environments directory and to the config/application.rb file. I don't want to use .gitignore because I don't want OTHER people working on the code base to have their configurations ignored by git. Basically I'm doing a lot of testing that modifies the config files and sometimes my config changes are checked into a github which at a minimum is embarassing and at worst causes issues with the production environment.

What's the best approach here?

Answer 1

You can set up a global .gitignore .

Although, it will still see changes in files that already are in the repository. Here's how you work around this . You can probably make a bash macro out of it.

Answer 2

You can do git update-index --assume-unchanged config/application.rb and git will not notice any changes you make to the local copy of that file unless you explicitly use git add .

My understanding is that .gitignore and friends won't change how files that are already put into the repository are handled, only whether untracked files are presented as candidates.

Answer 3

您可以定义一个全局.gitignore ，它将是您的机器特定的，而不是签入项目存储库。

Answer 4

check for the .gitignore file.If not just create a file .gitignore and mention the list of files you want to ignore like this config/database.yml

 /config/*.yml
/log/*.log /tmp