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Roke
Roke

Reputation: 369

Git Ignore files when make a pull

I am new at github and I am developing an app that has a config.php file that you must enter the database credentials.

In my github repository the file is like this:

<?php
    $host_name  = "<HOST>";
    $database   = "<DATABASE>";
    $user_name  = "<USER>";
    $password   = "<PASSWORD>";
?>

But in the website i have the file with the credentials:

<?php
    $host_name  = "myhost";
    $database   = "mydatabase";
    $user_name  = "myuser";
    $password   = "mypassword";
?>

In the .gitignore file I put the file that I don't want to push to my github repository when I am developing but what I want to do now is to ignore files when I make a pull.

What I want is to update my website from my github repository but I want to ignore the config.php file because this must be unique in each install.

How can I do it?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6491

Answers (2)

oginski
oginski

Reputation: 364

To stop tracking a file you need to remove it from the index. This can be achieved with this command:

git rm --cached <file>

Commit that change

git commit -am "Remove ignored config.php"

Upvotes: 1

Dmitrii Smirnov
Dmitrii Smirnov

Reputation: 7538

.gitignore is for ignoring untracked files, but you need to ignore changes in the tracked one. you could use git update-index --skip-worktree /path/to/config.php

See https://git-scm.com/docs/git-update-index#_skip_worktree_bit

Upvotes: 3

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