[Ambroisie]

I think OOP meant to say that the `.envrc` file _is_ committed, but they want to do local changes _without_ the possibility of them getting accidentally committed by mistake.

[arccy]

the simple workaround would be to have .envrc optionally load another gitignored file if it exists, which sounds much safer than accidentally committing local changes, even with plain git.

[bbkane]

If that's not possible, maybe OP can rename it to .envrc.example, and commit that. Then put in the instructions to rename .envrc.example to .envrc on checkout