On Jul 4, 6:50 pm, KaibutsuX <sean.gri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm committing some selenium tests for departmental use and the first > file is a login script which has two fields for user and password. I'm > committing them with some default junk values, but I would like to > have everyone pull the script and the following files but be able to > change the login script with their own values without git thinking it > is a change that has to be tracked. > > I guess the simplest way would be to have everyone pull it, then add > that file to the ignore list. Then if I ever want to add more to the > login script I would unignore it and then commit it, then readd it to > the ignore list. > > Or another method might be to tell git to not track these two lines of > the login file only or maybe just not track the first n lines. > > Are either of these methods possible with git?
Possibly you should look at "git attributes" which provide a way to change any file before it is written to the working directory or when it is read from it. I don't really know how it interacts with `git status` and friends though. 1. https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#Does_git_have_keyword_expansion.3F -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
