I’ll put things like server secrets and whatnot, there.
Of course, I need to make sure the local directory is backed up, on this end, since it is not stored in git.
Works a treat.
I am serious. If there is a better way, I'd use it.
Remember that I don't do online/server-based stuff. Most of my projects are for full compilation/linking, and rendering into host-executable, binary apps. There's a bunch of stuff in my development process that never needs to see a server.
[UPDATE] I ended up doing something even simpler. I have issues with running scripts during the build process, unless really necessary (I have done it, and will, again).
Since this is Xcode, I simply needed to store the file in a directory (still with the global ignored name) far out of my dev tree, and dragged the file into the IDE.