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user1185081

Reputation: 2118

How to specify paths in .gitignore?

I am developing a Ruby on Rails application, using git for synchronising code between stakeholders. The application has the ability to send emails. Each stakeholder has his own SMTP provider which is defined in config/initializers/smtp.rb during installation.

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
    address: "smtp.emailme.com",
    port: 587,
    domain: "emailme.com",
    authentication: "plain",
    enable_starttls_auto: true,
    user_name: "[email protected]",
    password: "Password"
    }

The .gitignore file is defined as:

*.rbc
capybara-*.html
.rspec
/log
/tmp
/public/system
/coverage/
/spec/tmp
**.orig
rerun.txt
pickle-email-*.html

## Environment normalization:
/.bundle
/vendor/bundle

# these should all be checked in to normalize the environment:
# Gemfile.lock, .ruby-version, .ruby-gemset
Gemfile~

config/initializers/smtp.rb

.gitignore files are identical on Github and on my computer. I tried to specify

config/initializers/smtp.rb

or

/config/initializers/smtp.rb

But whatever, the smtp.rb file on my computer gets overwritten with the file on Github. And it's the same the other way round. What did I miss?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 553

Answers (2)

Edmund Dipple
Edmund Dipple

Reputation: 2434

.gitignore will tell git to ignore changes to files that are not currently being tracked by git.

Run git rm --cached config/initializers/smtp.rb to stop git from tracking future changes to the file.

Create a config/initializers/smtp.template.rb with dummy values, and commit + push your changes.

Direct any new stakeholders to run cp config/initializers/smtp.template.rb config/initializers/smtp.rb and update the file when setting up their development environment.

Upvotes: 0

Azhar Khattak
Azhar Khattak

Reputation: 875

As mentioned by @oliver, the file should not exist on git. You can remove the file from git by doing

git rm --cached config/initializers/smtp.rb
git commit -m "Removed config file from repo"
git push

Please do note --cached, it is very important otherwise you can lose the file from you local directory. This option will remove the file only from repo.

See: Remove directory from remote repository after adding them to .gitignore if you want to Add directory to .gitignore

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

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