Same secret multiple times in the same file

[gustavotabares]

Hello,

I'm trying to scan using detect-secrets --all-files and I noticed that the tool does not detect multiple instances of the same secret in a single file. It will simply flag the first instance found. The comment located here makes me believe that this is by design. Is it possible to change this behavior or is the tool not designed for this?

[KevinHock]

Hi @gustavotabares, @domanchi and I have had some discussions around this. However we've kind of punted dealing with this particular issue in the recent past. Line numbers are purposely not part of the secret hash because when lines move around we don't want to re-alert, but I don't see why we couldn't have a count of the secret and keep track of it that way. It is kind of a nice-to-have IMO though.

Thanks for making this a GitHub issue 👍 In summary it is possible to change this behavior, it's just that we haven't addressed it yet.

[domanchi]

This is heavily similar to #53, so closing this issue in favor of the older one.