From 92d14e41b5b6bb0aa6de7afdf86286c1db6cd223 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Malin Freeborn Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:13:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] document git secret shitshow --- data/git/git_secret.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 data/git/git_secret.md diff --git a/data/git/git_secret.md b/data/git/git_secret.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec1931d --- /dev/null +++ b/data/git/git_secret.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +title: "git secret" +tags: [ "data", "git" ] +--- + +This utility is largely useless, as it can only identify people by their email. +So if someone has multiple GPG keys associated with one email, the tool will not work. + +Worse than not working, it may 'suddenly' stop working as you try to transfer a secret to someone, who then discovers that `git-secret` requires them to mess about with their GPG keyring in order to use the repository.