macOS
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brew install git-secretsprovider-native install command
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git-secrets mit Homebrew installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für git-secrets in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Prevents you from committing sensitive information to a git repo
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- git-secrets
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
git-secrets is an AWS Labs command-line tool that installs Git hooks and scans commits for prohibited secret patterns. Its best-known workflow is preventing AWS credentials and other sensitive strings from entering Git history.
Projektgeschichte
AWS Labs released git-secrets in 2015 as a hook-driven local scanner. The README documents pre-commit, commit-msg, and prepare-commit-msg hooks, as well as repository and global Git configuration for prohibited and allowed patterns.
The changelog shows rapid maturation after the initial release: 1.1.0 added full-history scanning, `.gitallowed`, cached/no-index/untracked scan modes, and staged-file scanning in hooks; 1.3.0 refined provider output handling, Windows path behavior, and IAM key detection.
Adoptionsgeschichte
git-secrets became a recognizable package because it came from AWS Labs and addressed a common Git failure mode with no server dependency. Homebrew and Linux distribution packaging made it easy to add to developer workstations and repository templates.
Wie es verwendet wird
Practitioners run `git secrets --install` inside a repository, often followed by `git secrets --register-aws`, so commits are blocked when configured patterns are detected. They also run `git secrets --scan-history` before publishing a repository or add custom providers for organization-specific patterns.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
The package is important in Git tooling culture because it turns secret scanning into local hooks and plain Git config. It is small, scriptable, and easy to wire into templates, which made it useful before and alongside hosted secret-scanning services.
Zeitleiste
- 2015: Repository created under AWS Labs.
- 2015: 1.0.0 initial release.
- 2016: 1.1.0 added full-history scans, `.gitallowed`, and more scan modes.
- 2016: 1.2.x fixed path and provider-command handling.
- 2019: 1.3.0 improved IAM key scanning and Windows path handling.
Related projects
- Related tools and concepts include Git hooks, AWS credential files, organization-specific secret providers, repository templates, and other secret scanners used in pre-commit workflows.
Quellen
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Installationsverhalten
- Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.
Empfohlene Prüfung
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
.git/config~/.gitconfig~/.config/git/config/etc/gitconfig
Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
git-secrets | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-08-03
Manager-Version1.3.0
Manager aktualisiert
lokale Datenunbekannt
Upstreamnicht verfügbar
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
- OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:git-secrets |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.3.0 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets |
| Repository | https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation