API keys

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

I have my API keys in a seperate file and my question is how do i backlist this file from being accidentally added to my public git repo?

[Guest]

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore

 

https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files/

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

1 minute ago, obi-fade-kenobi said:

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore

 

https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files/

but does this transfer to all git users or does it just work for me?

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

but does this transfer to all git users or does it just work for me?

That specifies files that git should pretend aren't there - as in, if you commit, it won't commit that file. 

 

So, anyone looking at the repo won't see the file, because it won't be there. They'll be able to see you've ignored a filed named whatever you file is named, but not the file itself 

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

12 minutes ago, obi-fade-kenobi said:

That specifies files that git should pretend aren't there - as in, if you commit, it won't commit that file. 

 

So, anyone looking at the repo won't see the file, because it won't be there. They'll be able to see you've ignored a filed named whatever you file is named, but not the file itself 

yes that is fine for me but what can i do about other users accidentally publishing api keys?

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

yes that is fine for me but what can i do about other users accidentally publishing api keys?

You mean other contributors? The same will apply to them 

 

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A .gitignore file should be committed into your repository, in order to share the ignore rules with any other users that clone the repository.