I usually maintain a release branch to upload my code to the stage environment or production. Its very common to have some sort of config files which are related to the targeted environment. For example: database connection files, api URLs etc. And I believe that everyone uses different DB and APIs for dev and prod. Yes we use! 🙂

Now the problem begins when we merge our master branch with release and all of our config files gets overwritten. What the F**K. Its again rework on our end to fix those files to make our code work on that particular environment.

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