[Xylakant]

Neither of the solutions is actually beautiful, they all require some sort of deployment magic - env variables set, cap symlinking files or similar. What works for me probably doesn't work for you.

Btw: you can check the regenerated file into the repo, adding it to .gitignore just prevents you from accidentally adding it:

  Last login: Tue Jan 15 17:07:14 on ttys005
  Voice-of-Evening:~ fgilcher$ cd /tmp
  Voice-of-Evening:tmp fgilcher$ git init test
  Initialized empty Git repository in /private/tmp/test/.git/
  Voice-of-Evening:tmp fgilcher$ cd test/
  Voice-of-Evening:test fgilcher$ echo "README" >> .gitignore
  Voice-of-Evening:test fgilcher$ touch README
  Voice-of-Evening:test fgilcher$ git status
  # On branch master
  #
  # Initial commit
  #
  # Untracked files:
  #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
  #
  #	.gitignore
  nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
  Voice-of-Evening:test fgilcher$ git add -f README
  Voice-of-Evening:test fgilcher$ git status
  # On branch master
  #
  # Initial commit
  #
  # Changes to be committed:
  #   (use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage)
  #
  #	new file:   README
  #
  # Untracked files:
  #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
  #
  #	.gitignore
  Voice-of-Evening:test fgilcher$

[Hello71]

That doesn't stop you from accidentally pushing it to GitHub though.

[Xylakant]

No, quite to the contrary: Once you do this, you'll push it in the next commit. But in the case of an OS app you'd probably want to create a private repo for the app since all your configuration would be public otherwise. If you deploy to heroku, you'll have at least one private git repo on heroku.