maintaining configuration differences between dev and live environments during deployment from SVN

Question

We use the ExpressionEngine CMS (php) to create websites. For each site, we set up a subversion repository and commit the EE installation as well as any custom templates, images

Answer 1

I deal with this problem by adding configuration file to Subversion ignore list. It was already addressed here on Stackoverflow: see question #149485

Basically, I only keep setup.default.php in SVN, and in every installation I manually copy it to setup.php which is on ignore list. This prevents the file to be checked back in to the repo. There are rarely changes to this file and can be handled as the requirement occurs.