How to keep different content of one file in my local and github repository?

Question

I have a database.php. I want to keep it in my github repository without any sensitive information.

First I pushed to my repository without any sensitive info.

Answer 1

You should use a filter driver able to:

• on checkout, in the smudge script, detect the content (those 'filter driver' scripts don't have the name of the files they are filtering) of a database.template
• generate the private, always ignored, database.php, based on the values of a:
  • database.private.value file (also always ignored)
  • or, if database.private.value isn't found (which is the case for your user cloning your repo), a database.public.value file (which is pushed to the remote repo)
• no need to do anything on the commit (script clean) step.

Answer 2

You should make 2 different files one actual database.php and one database.php.example or something like that and then add database.php to .gitignore