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Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories

23 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 6 stories, 17 comments · first 2015-12-11 · latest 2025-06-16

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  1. perplexity offered me those: https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets https://www.infracloud.io/blogs/prevent-secret-leaks-in-repo... https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/1h1r0ep/best_practices... In addition GitGuardian cost something…
    comment by 2rsf · 2025-06-16 · in Ask HN: Prevent Secrets from Committing to Repos
  2. …Then adapted with a better regex for secret keys I got from here: https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets/blob/80230afa8c8bdeac... (I think maybe I was getting false positives before)
    comment by jrochkind1 · 2023-04-06 · in What happens when you leak AWS credentials and how AWS minimizes the damage
  3. …https://github.com/godaddy/tartufo https://github.com/GitGuardian/ggshield https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets https://github.com/sirwart/secrets https://thoughtworks.github.io/talisman/ https://gitleaks.io/
    comment by pabs3 · 2022-11-21 · in GitHub access token exposure
  4. https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
    comment by JoeMattiello · 2022-10-14 · in Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
  5. https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
    comment by JoeMattiello · 2022-10-14 · in Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
  6. …demo key that was recently uploaded to a test repo. This is also why I use git-secrets in my repos. https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
    comment by JoeMattiello · 2022-10-14 · in Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
  7. …https://martinfowler.com/articles/session-secret.html https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets https://github.com/sirwart/ripsecrets https://thoughtworks.github.io/talisman/…
    comment by pabs3 · 2022-05-29 · in Quickly find sensitive files in your GitHub repo
  8. AWS has their own as well https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
    comment by copperroof · 2022-04-20 · in Secrets: A command-line tool to prevent committing secret keys into your source
  9. - https://github.com/auth0/repo-supervisor - https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets - https://github.com/trufflesecurity/truffleHog - https://www.gitguardian.com/ - https://github.com/eth0izzle/shhgit All these tools can be configured to…
    comment by mzfr · 2021-08-09 · in Ask HN: What are the best automated tools for keeping credentials out of GitHub?
  10. …it will definitely be opt-in, rather than opt-out! * https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/ * https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
    comment by greysteil · 2020-11-07 · in What will happen when you commit secrets to a public Git repo?
  11. https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
    comment by pagade · 2018-08-06 · in CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a Git repo (2017)
  12. git-secrets from the AWS team: https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
    comment by ashurov · 2018-08-06 · in CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a Git repo (2017)
  13. …for pre-configured patterns and reject the push if it contains them. Quick google yielded this https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
    comment by rplnt · 2017-11-22 · in Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
  14. git-secrets is a pre-commit hook that regexp's out secrets and blocks commits https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
    comment by nikcub · 2017-11-22 · in Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
  15. I remember someone posting something like this: https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
    comment by sharemywin · 2017-04-26 · in Spending 100K USD in 4.5 Days on Amazon Web Services
  16. …against a range of patterns for files that typically contain sensitive or dangerous information" https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets - "Prevents you from committing passwords and other sensitive information to a git repository"
    comment by sublimino · 2017-02-17 · in GitLeaks – Search engine for exposed secrets on GitHub
  17. …secrets-aware git hook that attempts to prevent this at the repository level [1] [1] https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
    comment by djm_ · 2017-02-15 · in GitHub commit search: “remove password”