Stop Committing Secrets: A Practical Guide to Pre-Commit Secret Detection

You’ve done it. Or someone on your team has. A .env file slips into a commit, an AWS key ends up in a config file, a GitLab token gets hardcoded in a script “just for testing”. A few minutes later it’s in your git history — forever.

This post covers the current best practice for catching secrets before they ever touch your repository, without drowning your team in false positives.