How to properly set app.config in VisualStudio when using GIT?

Question

git

There is a WPF project, a desktop application.
It contains 3 files with local paths to servers/files, they are different on each machine of programmers:
BuildTestingProject\app.config

file content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <configSections>
        <sectionGroup name="userSettings" type="System.Configuration.UserSettingsGroup, System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" >
            <section name="BuildTestingProject.Properties.Settings" type="System.Configuration.ClientSettingsSection, System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" allowExeDefinition="MachineToLocalUser" requirePermission="false" />
        </sectionGroup>
    </configSections>
    <userSettings>
        <BuildTestingProject.Properties.Settings>
            <setting name="Path1" serializeAs="String">
                <value>Тестовый путь к локальному файлу при разработке</value>
            </setting>
            <setting name="Server1" serializeAs="String">
                <value>Путь к локальному серверу при разработке</value>
            </setting>
        </BuildTestingProject.Properties.Settings>
    </userSettings>
</configuration>

BuildTestingProject\Properties\Settings.settings

file content

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<SettingsFile xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2004/01/settings" CurrentProfile="(Default)" GeneratedClassNamespace="BuildTestingProject.Properties" GeneratedClassName="Settings">
  <Profiles />
  <Settings>
    <Setting Name="Path1" Type="System.String" Scope="User">
      <Value Profile="(Default)">Тестовый путь к локальному файлу при разработке</Value>
    </Setting>
    <Setting Name="Server1" Type="System.String" Scope="User">
      <Value Profile="(Default)">Путь к локальному серверу при разработке</Value>
    </Setting>
  </Settings>
</SettingsFile>

BuildTestingProject\Properties\Settings.Designer.cs

file content

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <auto-generated>
//     This code was generated by a tool.
//     Runtime Version:4.0.30319.42000
//
//     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
//     the code is regenerated.
// </auto-generated>
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

namespace BuildTestingProject.Properties {
    
    
    [global::System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CompilerGeneratedAttribute()]
    [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("Microsoft.VisualStudio.Editors.SettingsDesigner.SettingsSingleFileGenerator", "14.0.0.0")]
    internal sealed partial class Settings : global::System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase {
        
        private static Settings defaultInstance = ((Settings)(global::System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase.Synchronized(new Settings())));
        
        public static Settings Default {
            get {
                return defaultInstance;
            }
        }
        
        [global::System.Configuration.UserScopedSettingAttribute()]
        [global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
        [global::System.Configuration.DefaultSettingValueAttribute("Тестовый путь к локальному файлу при разработке")]
        public string Path1 {
            get {
                return ((string)(this["Path1"]));
            }
            set {
                this["Path1"] = value;
            }
        }
        
        [global::System.Configuration.UserScopedSettingAttribute()]
        [global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
        [global::System.Configuration.DefaultSettingValueAttribute("Путь к локальному серверу при разработке")]
        public string Server1 {
            get {
                return ((string)(this["Server1"]));
            }
            set {
                this["Server1"] = value;
            }
        }
    }
}

How specifically to configure GIT so that the paths are not replaced with each commit of any of the programmers?

Answer 1

This is more of an organizational issue.
Proposed solutions:
1. Give programmers a hat, tk. refuse to turn on the head.
2. Make a single custom config
2.1 Make a test remote server that the config looks at.
3. Locally on his computer, the developer has the right to do anything, provided that it does not get into the repository and does not harm others
4. For the mess in the code, making confusion, refusing to turn on the head - anal punishments and mass executions.

Answer 2

As an option: put that part of the config, in which all sorts of paths are written, into a separate file. And in the main config, just use the link to this file. After that, it is necessary that each of the developers exclude this file (assume paths.config) from updating the git with the command git update-index --skip-worktree paths.config. Now this file can be changed locally and its changes will not be tracked.