GIT-SECRET-INIT(1)

✨ git-secret-init(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the git-secret manual — section 1 of the good stuff, straight outta the git-secret package, version 0.5.0-alpha2 💖 this one's all about the very first thing you ever run, so like… pay attention, it's giving origin story 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

git-secret-init — initializes git-secret repository. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so. git-secret-init initializes a git-secret repo by setting up a .gitsecret directory. simple as that, no cap 🫶

git-secret-init should be run inside a git repo, and what it does is create the .gitsecret directory and initialize the repo for git-secret. and listen — until a repository is initialized with git secret init, all other git-secret commands are unavailable. literally all of them. so if you're out here confused why nothing works, it's because you skipped step one, bestie 😭 this is the vibe check. pass it first.

If a .gitsecret directory already exists, git-secret-init exits without making any changes. no harm, no foul, she just peaces out 🙈 otherwise:

• .gitignore is modified to ignore git-secret's random_seed_file, and to not ignore .secret files,
• a .gitsecret directory is created with the sub-directories /keys and /paths,
• The .gitsecret/keys subdirectory permission is set to 700 to make gnupg happy. (gnupg is a delicate little princess and we respect her needs 🎀)

See git-secret(7) https://git-secret.io/git-secret for information about renaming the .gitsecret folder with the SECRETS_DIR environment variable, and changing the extension git-secret uses for secret files with the SECRETS_EXTENSION environment variable. iykyk ✨

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h — shows this help.

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🧚 MANUAL 🧚

Run man git-secret-init to see this document. yes, the document you are literally reading right now. she's self-aware, she's meta, she's iconic 🌈

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• git-secret-usage(1) https://git-secret.io/git-secret-usage
• git-secret-tell(1) https://git-secret.io/git-secret-tell

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🍓 this lil masterpiece was brought to you by sobolevn, dated April 2022, from git-secret version 0.5.0-alpha2 — go forth and initialize, you absolute main character 💜👑