Chore: [AEA-0000] - use gitleaks for secret scanning#689
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Pull request overview
This PR updates the repository’s pre-commit secret scanning approach by replacing git-secrets with gitleaks, aligning local commit-time checks with a more modern secret scanner.
Changes:
- Replace the local
git-secretspre-commit hook with agitleakshook. - Remove the
.gitallowedallowlist file previously used forgit-secrets. - Minor YAML formatting adjustments in
.pre-commit-config.yaml.
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| File | Description |
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| .pre-commit-config.yaml | Swaps secret-scanning hook to gitleaks and adjusts some hook YAML formatting. |
| .gitallowed | Removes the git-secrets allowlist file (no longer needed after switching scanners). |
| - -c | ||
| - "git-secrets --pre_commit_hook" | ||
| - "gitleaks git --pre-commit --redact --staged --verbose" | ||
| language: system |
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| description: gitleaks scans commits, commit messages, and --no-ff merges to | ||
| prevent adding secrets into your git repositories. |
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| entry: bash | ||
| args: | ||
| - -c | ||
| - "git-secrets --pre_commit_hook" | ||
| - "gitleaks git --pre-commit --redact --staged --verbose" | ||
| language: system |
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use gitleaks for secret scanning