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Installation

Dependencies

git-secret relies on two dependencies: git and gpg. Download and install them before using this project. git-secret is tested to work with:

git version 2.7.0
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.20

Supported platforms

git-secret is tested with Mac OS X >= 10.9, Ubuntu >= 14.04, Debian >= 8.3, Fedora / Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux, FreeBSD, and Windows >= 10 using WSL. You can check the full list of automated test platforms here.

We are always interested in getting git-secret working and tested on additional systems. If you get git-secret working on a new system and the tests pass for you, you can add a GitHub Action to test your platform to that file. Also we welcome improvements to tests or git-secret code for any platform.

Installation process

There are several ways to install git-secret, depending on your OS and distribution. They generally all have different installation processes, so we only go into a short explanation of each. (We welcome documentation improvements.)

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Mac OS X / Homebrew

This is a packaging system for OSX. To install git-secret on OSX, you can install homebrew and then use:

brew install git-secret

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Debian-Type Systems / deb package

deb is a packaging system for Debian and related linux distributions.

You can find the deb repository here. Pre-requirements: make sure you have installed apt-transport-https and ca-certificates

{% include install-deb.sh %}

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Red Hat Systems / rpm package

rpm is a packaging system for Fedora, CentOS, and other Red Hat based linux distributions. You can find the rpm repository here.

{% include install-rpm.sh %}

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Alpine Systems / apk package

apk is a packaging system for Alpine. You can find the apk git-secret packaging here, and you can see a list of supported architectures here

{% include install-apk.sh %}

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Arch Linux

Use Manual Installation method described below.

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Windows / WSL, Cygwin, MSYS, or Mingw-w64

git-secret depends on many unix tools and features that Windows systems do not usually include by default. Therefore to get git-secret running on Windows you have to install these tools, probably using one of the toolkits described below. Each has a different install and setup process. There may also be other ways to install the unix prerequisites on Windows.

Once the prerequisite unix tools are installed, you can use the Manual Installation instructions below to manually install git-secret (see below).

Some ways to install the required unix tools on windows include WSL, CYGWIN, MSYS, and Mingw-w64 (internally, these tools may share some components).

Documenting how each is installed and used is beyond the scope of this document, so we will cover the topic in broad strokes. Improvements to this documentation (or any other git-secret documentation) are welcome.

Again, after you install the unix tools needed, you can install git-secret on windows using the Manual Installation steps below.

WSL

Perhaps the easiest way to get git-secret operating on windows is using WSL (if your system supports it). Here are instructions to install WSL You'll need to install these additional packages: gnupg, make, man, git, gawk, file.

We have successfully set up automated testing of git-secret on WSL, so we are confident this method works.

Mingw-w64

Another way to install the prerequisites for git-secret on Windows is to use Mingw-w64 and install the needed packages. By default, the Mingw-w64 installation will be saved to C:\msys64. You'll need to install make and probably other tools such as gnupg, make, man, git, and gawk. (This list might not be complete).

MSYS and Cygwin

git-secret also works with MSYS and Cygwin, and we have gotten most of the way to getting git-secret's self-tests running on these setups with Windows (see windows-related issues).

We welcome contributions to git-secret and its documentation .

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Manual Installation

git clone https://github.com/sobolevn/git-secret.git git-secret
cd git-secret && make build
PREFIX="/usr/local" make install

Note that you can change PREFIX to be any directory you subsequently include in in your PATH environment variable. We generally recommend you stick to the default install locations for simplicity, but if you know what you're doing you are welcome to change it.