GIT-SECRET-REMOVE(1)

💖 GIT-SECRET-REMOVE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the git-secret-remove page, part of the git-secret family ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

git-secret-remove — removes files from index.

like, it takes them off the list. bye bye. 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

git secret remove [-c] <pathspec>...

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so git-secret-remove does one very specific thing: it stops files from being tracked by git-secret. that's it, that's the job. 💅

how does it do that, you ask? it deletes filenames from .gitsecret/paths/mapping.cfg. and because those names are gone from that file, the files stop being tracked by git-secret — which means they're no longer getting encrypted into, or decrypted from, their .secret encrypted versions. no cap. ✨

there's also a -c option if you wanna go the extra mile and delete existing encrypted versions of the files you provided. spicy. 🔥

ngl, here's a lil heads up: unlike add, which automatically adds pathnames to .gitignore, remove does NOT delete pathnames from .gitignore. so don't expect it to clean that up for you, bestie. 🙈

(see git-secret(7) https://git-secret.io/git-secret for the tea on renaming the .gitsecret folder using the SECRETS_DIR environment variable. iykyk 💜)

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -c — deletes existing real encrypted files. like, the actual encrypted ones. gone. 💀
• -h — shows help. your lil rescue button when you're lost. 🫶

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🌈 MANUAL 🌈

run man git-secret-remove to see this document. yes, the doc telling you how to see the doc. iconic behavior honestly. 👑

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• git-secret-add(1) https://git-secret.io/git-secret-add
• git-secret-clean(1) https://git-secret.io/git-secret-clean
• git-secret-removeperson(1) https://git-secret.io/git-secret-removeperson

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aaaand that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 written by sobolevn, dated April 2022, living in the git-secret 0.5.0-alpha2 era. go forth and remove responsibly 💖✨🎀