Change how sample environment variables are stored in the repository #793
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Currently, log-in credentials are passed to containers during the build process as environment variables, which are stored in a file
.env. For deployment, this file is modified with secret credentials, meaning that there are changes to the.envfile on servers that are not ever merged: subsequent deployments require pulling changes and re-applying these changes to the.envfile.This PR stores a sample environment variable configuration in the
.env.samplefile, which is copied to an untracked.envfile upon deployment. This.envfile can then remain untracked on the server and won't be rewritten when changes are pulled.