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Is it possible to untrack certains lines in application.properties?

I want to push application.properties, but I don't want to push lines which are for email configuration. e.g.:

spring.mail.default-encoding=UTF-8
spring.mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
spring.mail.username=mail
spring.mail.password=pass
spring.mail.port=587
spring.mail.protocol=smtp
spring.mail.test-connection=true
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.auth=true
spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true
N. Labrahmi
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I don't think it's possible to untrack single lines of a file, but you can untrack your whole application.properties file and point to it using an OS placeholder so it can be detected on your machine by Spring Boot like the following for example:

@PropertySource("file:///${user.home}/.myapp/application.properties")

This way, you keep sensitive configuration data outside of git tracking. Another benefit is that you can have a different configuration file for each environment where you deploy your application.

Alternatively, it is possible to specify a file: location to appoint a properties file that is located elsewhere on your host environment: @PropertySource("file:/path/to/application.properties")

See: https://blog.jayway.com/2014/02/16/spring-propertysource/

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You can create separate configuration files for different environments.

Ex. application.properties -It contain key and value like this. spring.profiles.active=dev

It defines which profile is active at a time.

Create other property file as per requirement like this and write your configuration in this files.

application-dev.properties

application-prod.properties

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  • How can I allow spring boot to see that file? It doesn't see that file when running the application so `JavaMailSender` throws an error saying that no host provided – Eniss Mar 20 '18 at 10:21
  • No need other configuration. Check This : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32196451/environment-specific-application-properties-file-in-spring-boot-application – Sanjay Mar 20 '18 at 10:32