Coordinating between teams for any changes to a production config file is a hard sell, but yes, this is the only really solid way to make certain stupid mishaps

Coordinating between teams for any changes to a production config file is a hard sell, but yes, this is the only really solid way to make certain stupid mishaps don't happen. This is how we did it at my last company as well. In addition to using production branches. Most companies pin down their processes in response to issues that pop up.