On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 05:29, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Often, I find that I need to track a file which contains a small > portion I don't want to track (read: line with a password). Instead of > moving that out to a separate file and ignoring that file, is it a > good idea to add a feature to Git to allow ignoring content instead of > whole files? Since Git by nature tracks content, this shouldn't be too > hard to implement, right? > Generally, the way I've seen this handled is by tracking an example file, and ignoring the "real" file with the password. Something like: config/database.example.yml <-- Tracked file, with a dummy password & connection info. config/database.yml <-- Ignored file, actually used by application. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html