How to deploy only certain files from a bare repository?

Question

git

The server has a bare repository where changes from the local PC are pushed and a working directory where the site is deployed after each push with the command:

git --work-tree=$TARGET --git-dir=$GIT_DIR checkout -f $BRANCH

I have a file among the files where the specified data for connecting the database. Naturally, this data is different on the local PC and the remote server. How to make sure that this file from the local PC is not replaced on a remote server?

Answer 1

Database configs should not be in the repository, either in env or in the .gitignore file.
Hence all the problems..