# git-secret
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Version 0.2.2 pre-release
There are a lot of changes, multiple things were refactored: tests,
some commands, building and meta.
Several critical bugs fixed.
Changes:
1. Fixed #74, when `_user_required` was not working after reimporting keys
2. Closes #73, now it is possible to provide multiple emails to the `killperson` command
3. Closes #72, now it is possible to provide multiple emails to the `tell` command
4. Closes #71, now every doc in this project refer to `git-secret.io` instead of old `gh-pages` website
5. Closes #70, now installation section is removed from main `man` file
6. Closes #69, now "See also" section in the `man`s are clickable
7. Closes #61, added "Manual" section to the manuals
8. Refs #38, added `centos` Dockerfile, but `ci` testing is still failing
9. Refs #52, tests are refactored. Added `clean` command tests, removed a lot of hardcoded things, moved tests execution from `./temp` folder to `/tmp`, added a lot of new check in old tests, and some new test cases
10. Refactored `hide` and `clean` commands to be shorter
11. `shellcheck` is now supported with `make lint`
Additional features are not comming to 0.2.2 after this commit.
7 years ago
[](http://git-secret.io/)
## What is `git-secret`?
`git-secret` is a bash tool to store your private data inside a git repo. How’ `gpg` , the tracked files with the public keys of all the users that you trust. So everyone of them can decrypt these files using only their personal secret key. Why deal with all this private-public keys stuff? Well, to make it easier for everyone to manage access rights. There are no passwords that change. When someone is out - just delete their public key, re-encrypt the files, and they won’
## Preview
[](https://asciinema.org/a/41811?autoplay=1)
## Installation
`git-secret` supports `brew` , just type: `brew install git-secret`
It also supports `apt` and `yum` . You can also use `make` if you want to.
See the [installation section ](http://git-secret.io/installation ) for the details.
### Requirements
`git-secret` relies on several external packages:
- `bash` since `3.2.57` (it is hard to tell the correct `patch` release)
- `gawk` since `4.0.2`
- `git` since `1.8.3.1`
- `gpg` since `gnupg 1.4` to `gnupg 2.X`
- `sha256sum` since `8.21`
## Help
Do you want to help the project? Consider these options:
- [Become a sponsor on OpenCollective ](https://opencollective.com/git-secret/#contribute )
- [Become a backer on OpenCollective ](https://opencollective.com/git-secret/ )
## Contributing
Do you want to help the project? Find an [issue ](https://github.com/sobolevn/git-secret/issues ) and send a PR. It is more than welcomed! See [CONTRIBUTING.md ](CONTRIBUTING.md ) on how to do that.
### Security
In order to encrypt (git-secret hide -m) files only when modified, the path
mappings file tracks sha256sum checksums of the files added (git-secret add) to
git-secret's path mappings filesystem database. Although, the chances of
encountering a sha collision are low, it is recommend that you pad files with
random data for greater security. Or avoid using the `-m` option altogether.
If your secret file holds more data than just a single password these
precautions should not be necessary, but could be followed for greater
security.
If you found any security related issues, please do not enclose it in public. Send an email to `security@wemake.services`
## Changelog
`git-secret` uses semver. See [CHANGELOG.md ](CHANGELOG.md ).
## License
MIT. See [LICENSE.md ](LICENSE.md ) for details.
## Thanks
Special thanks to [Elio Qoshi ](https://elioqoshi.me/sq/ ) from [ura ](http://ura.design/ ) for the awesome logo.
