Consider changes to make config file management easier ?

[HaystackIT]

Hello -

If you were to rename the following files thusly...

gateway/compose.local.yaml   --> gateway/compose.local.yaml.template
gateway/pyproject.toml       --> gateway/pyproject.toml.template
network/traefik/traefik.toml --> network/traefik/traefik.toml.template
(any others I haven't yet had the pleasure of modifying :-)

...and advise users to...

1. copy the template files to eg: compose.local.yaml and make required modifications
2. create a .gitignore file containing compose.local.yaml, etc

...users could more easily manage code lifecycles: we'd get any new or changed recommendations to the template files during a 'git pull' without overwriting our local mods. Has the added benefits of avoiding the hell of 'git stash' and manual post-pull file copying.

Thanks for considering,
-Robin

[lucaspar]

Thanks for the feedback, Robin.

You might find these git configurations useful ($ git config --global --edit ):

[pull]
# https://git-scm.com/docs/git-pull#Documentation/git-pull.txt

# https://git-scm.com/docs/git-pull#Documentation/git-pull.txt---rebasefalsetruemergesinteractive
# automatically rebase the current branch on top of the upstream branch after fetching
# it prevents automatic creation of merge commits when pulling
rebase = true

# https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-pullff
# When `ff` is set to only, only such fast-forward merges are allowed (equivalent to
# giving the --ff-only option from the command line). This setting overrides merge.ff
# when pulling.
ff = only

[rebase]

# https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#Documentation/git-rebase.txt---autostash
# automatically create a temporary stash entry before the operation begins, and apply it after the operation ends.
autoStash = true

I'm not editing compose.local.yaml and pyproject.toml at the ND deployment, but I can see compose.production.yaml and the Traefik config being useful inclusions.

Let me know if you get to other files.