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scooble on Oct 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Twelve-Factor App (2011)

I've read a bunch of tutorials promoting env vars to avoid secrets being accidentally checked into git. Step 1 is usually to create a .env file and add it to your gitignore.

AtlasBarfed on Oct 13, 2023 [–]

... and if you setup a git project and forget the gitignore

... your secrets get checked into git.

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