Hey guys, let’s say hypothetically you have a private github and you wanna make it public but you have your .env file uploaded, how can I, once the .env is added to the .gitignore, remove all commit history of the .env file to make sure no one has any api keys etc?
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junior ledge
Can't be much of a help, but I suggest creating new repo & rotate your env variables as I am pretty sure, they are accessible no matter what through commit history
easiest & reliable solution I suppose.
visual raft
Is it of any importance to you to keep commit history at all? If not then new repository and commit current state of your private repository without .env as initial commit sounds best for me too
frozen locust
yh what i was gonna do
i don't want the commit history as people can go back to see the .env file's contents?
junior ledge
i don't want the commit history as people can go back to see the .env file's con...
just in general rotate ur api keys, there was a document showing that ur git commit history is accessible no matter what
Don't have link to it anymore, that's just an advice though
frozen locust
Ok, i got you