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Asked: 2026-06-03T17:29:28+00:00

I sometimes work with Codeigniter, and after I’m done developing on the local site,

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I sometimes work with Codeigniter, and after I’m done developing on the local site, I need to migrate the files to the server. All the files in the /config/ folder need to be changed to match the Server settings. It’s not right to make an entire commit for these changes, do I simply make Git ignore these files altogether, or is there a way to track these changes and apply them with Git at the right moment?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could keep versioned:

    • two “value config files”, with the right values for each environment
    • a template config file, with value placeholder in it (for instance, @@PORT_NUMBER@@)
    • a script able to generate the actual config file depending on the current environment
    • a content filter driver which, on checkout, will trigger the script in order to generate the right config file.

    content filter driver

    Note: that supposes your template config file has a recognizable content (the filter doesn’t have a name or path of the file). See “Git equivalent of subversion’s $URL$ keyword expansion” for more on the limitation of git content filter driver).

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