How to add a file that is needed to compile a project, but which is in the gitingore?

[bacecek]

Hello!

Firstly, I’m sorry for my English.

Problem: I have an Android project on GitHub. This project uses Crashlytics library from Fabric. Project contains file named fabric.properties, that contains API-keys, and Fabric recommends to add this file to .gitignore. And without this file project can not be compiled. How to add this file to bitrise or API-keys in project so that was not visible in GitHub?

Regards.

[viktorbenei]

Hi @bacecek,

Thanks for asking this here!

You can find a related discussion here:

Adding/overwriting configuration files (secrets, gitignored, not in repository)

Hi, I have a problem with configuring new builds for Android. I have confidential info - api endpoints, tokens etc. that I do not want to include in my github repo. The problem is that I am not able to add/overrwrite files to include credentials in build. The only solution I found is to create script to do that stuff, but I think this solution is not flexible and could be little bit problematic in case of changing for example api endpoint. Do you maybe have another solution for my problem? Tha…

In your case I’d suggest either Generic File Storage or Secret Env Vars + Script step.

If you’d have any questions feel free to comment in that discussion!