What's the best practice for handling system-specific information under version control?

Question

I\'m new to version control, so I apologize if there is a well-known solution to this. For this problem in particular, I\'m using git, but I\'m curious about how to deal wit

Answer 1

Avoid absolute paths wherever possible.

Don't rely on your current version control to do something magic - you may change version control systems in the future.

The simplest approach works for me: have a 'config.live' and the 'config' is configured for development. During deployment simply move the config.live to config and all is fine. For more complex configurations a sub-directory for each configuration may be required.

A set of deployment procedures is essential - as the configuration is only one area that will be different.

Anything more complex is almost certainly likely to cause more problems than it solves.