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Parse .gitignore

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Summary

It would be ideal to respect .gitignore by default, ignoring the same files that Git does.

Motivation

Files that match patterns in .gitignore are unlikely to be committed to the repository, which is what Secretlint intends to prevent when it detects secrets. Presently, one generally has to duplicate .gitignore in .secretlintignore unless they are identical, in which case one can configure Secretlint to use .gitignore directly.

Issue Analytics

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Created 2 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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azucommented, Nov 19, 2022

@sanmai-NL I agree. It is reasonable.

I think that respecting .gitignore is opt-in feature. I close this issue, and open new issue.

https://github.com/secretlint/secretlint/issues/337

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sanmai-NLcommented, Nov 19, 2022

I think it’s not wise to partly or fully equate .gitignore with .secretlintignore. Should any secret be committed that is covered by .gitignore, then that secret won’t be detected. The whole point of the secrets leak risk is that they can inadvertently end up under version control. Indeed, only a few lines pertaining to secret files from the .gitignore should be included in .secretlintignore.

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