\fBgit\-secret\-add\fR adds a filepath(es) into \fB\.gitsecret/paths/mapping\.cfg\fR\. When adding files to encrypt, ensure that they are ignored by \fBgit\fR by mentioning them in \.gitignore, since they must be secure and not be committed into the remote repository unencrypted\.
\fBgit\-secret\-add\fR adds a filepath(es) into \fB\.gitsecret/paths/mapping\.cfg\fR\.
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When adding files to encrypt, ensure that they are ignored by \fBgit\fR by mentioning them in \.gitignore, since they must be secure and not be committed into the remote repository unencrypted\.
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If there\'s no users in the \fBgit\-secret\fR\'s keyring, when adding a file, an exception will be raised\.
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It is not recommended to add filenames directly into \fB\.gitsecret/paths/mapping\.cfg\fR\.
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(See git\-secret(7) \fIhttp://git\-secret\.io/git\-secret\fR for information about renaming the \.gitsecret folder using the SECRETS_DIR environment variable\.
It is possible to modify the names of the encrypted files by setting \fBSECRETS_EXTENSION\fR variable\.
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(See git\-secret(7) \fIhttp://git\-secret\.io/git\-secret\fR for information about renaming the \.gitsecret folder using the SECRETS_DIR environment variable\.
\fBgit\-secret\-init\fR should be run inside a \fBgit\fR repo to set up the \.gitsecret directory and initialize the repo for git\-secret\. Until repository is initialized with \fBgit secret init\fR, all other \fBgit\-secret\fR commands are unavailable\.
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(See git\-secret(7) \fIhttp://git\-secret\.io/git\-secret\fR for information about renaming the \.gitsecret folder using the SECRETS_DIR environment variable\.
\fBgit\-secret\-list\fR\- prints all the added files\.
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\fBgit\-secret\-list\fR prints all the currently added tracked files from the \fB\.gitsecret/paths/mapping\.cfg\fR\.
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(See git\-secret(7) \fIhttp://git\-secret\.io/git\-secret\fR for information about renaming the \.gitsecret folder using the SECRETS_DIR environment variable\.
\fBgit\-secret\-remove\fR deletes files from \fB\.gitsecret/paths/mapping\.cfg\fR, so they won\'t be encrypted or decrypted in the future\. There\'s also a \-c option to delete existing encrypted versions of the files provided\.
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(See git\-secret(7) \fIhttp://git\-secret\.io/git\-secret\fR for information about renaming the \.gitsecret folder using the SECRETS_DIR environment variable\.
\fBgit\-secret\-reveal\fR\- decrypts all the files in \fB\.gitsecret/paths/mapping\.cfg\fR\. You will need to have imported the paired secret\-key with one of the public\-keys which were used in the encryption\. Under the hood, this uses the \fBgpg \-\-decrypt\fR command\.
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(See git\-secret(7) \fIhttp://git\-secret\.io/git\-secret\fR for information about renaming the \.gitsecret folder using the SECRETS_DIR environment variable\.
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\fB$SECRETS_EXTENSION\fR\- sets the secret files extension, defaults to \fB\.secret\fR\. It can be changed to any valid file extension\.
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\fB$SECRETS_DIR\fR\- sets the directory where git\-secret stores its files, defaults to \.gitsecret\. It can be changed to any valid directory name\.
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.SH"The <code>\.gitsecret</code> folder (can be overridden with SECRETS_DIR)"
This folder contains information about the files encrypted by git\-secret, and about which public/private key sets can access the encrypted data\.
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You can change the name of this directory using the SECRETS_DIR environment variable\.
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Use the various \'git secret\' commands to manipulate the files in \fB\.gitsecret\fR, you should not change the data in these files directly\.
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Exactly which files exist in the \.gitsecret folder and what their contents are vary slightly across different versions of gpg\. Thus it is best to use git\-secret with the same version of gpg being used by all users\. This can be forced using SECRETS_GPG_COMMAND environment variable\.
Exactly which files exist in the \fB\.gitsecret\fR folder and what their contents are vary slightly across different versions of gpg\. Thus it is best to use git\-secret with the same version of gpg being used by all users\. This can be forced using SECRETS_GPG_COMMAND environment variable\.
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Specifically, there is an issue between gpg version 2\.1\.20 and later versions which can cause problems reading and writing keyring files between systems (this shows up in errors like \'gpg: skipped packet of type 12 in keybox\')\.
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By default, \fBgit secret init\fR will add the file \fB\.gitsecret/keys/random_seed\fR to your \.gitignore file\.
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Again, you can change the name of this directory using the SECRETS_DIR environment variable\.
joshr
6 years ago