Bug#888115: ITP: git-secret -- store encrypted private data inside a git repository

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

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!

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