It’s a common practice to encrypt the secrets/credentials we use in our code and then save it in some secure place. We have a number of options to achieve this, with tools like Vault, Git-crypt, and more. However, git-secret is one simple awesome tool that we can use to store our secrets in our Git repo. Git secret uses gpg for encryption and decryption of secrets.
Here’s how git-secret works. Go to the folder in your repo in which you have files to encrypt. Then, run git init && git secret init. This would initialize your .gitsecret folder. Then you run git secret tell $email , and if you want other users to decrypt the secrets file you have to import their gpg public key and again run git secret tell $otheruseremailid . Now you can run git secret add $secretfilename and git secret hide,which creates $yoursecretfile.secret file, which is an encrypted secret file.
