On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:09:26AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, ChangZhuo Chen wrote: > > > git-secret is a bash tool to store your private data inside a git repo. > > > How’s that? Basically, it just encrypts, using gpg, the tracked files > > > with the public keys of all the users that you trust. > > > > I'm curious how this differs from pass[1] or just checking encrypted > > data directly into a git repo. > > git-secret is used to encrypt credential file (e.g. database passwords, > application access token, ...) in a code repository. > > > Maybe the following description is better? > > Description: store encrypted credential inside source code git repository > git-secret is designed to solve the problem where to store the > credential file (e.g. password, token, ...) for a service. With > git-secret, we can store encrypted credential along with source code in > git repository.
Ah, got it; makes more sense now. It's really for deployment authentication tokens. [So, totally different from pass.] Thanks! -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. -- Douglas Adams