[chef] best way to keep both chef-repo and cookbooks under source control?

[Bryan Berry < >]

Anyone have any recommendations on the best way to keep both chef-repo and cookbooks under source control?

My current thought is to keep cookbooks/ as a sub-directory of chef-repo/ but to put   cookbooks/*  in my top-level .gitignore for chef-repo

so

chef-repo/

             .gitignore    # inside; ignore cookbooks/*

              cookbooks/

              databags/

              ....

is there a better strategy?

             

Following previous discussions on this list, I will keep all corporate/sensitive info in chef-repo and no corporate info (ip addrs, hostnames, etc.) in cookbooks/