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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One does not commit or compile credentials

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This meme was brought to you by the PyPI Director of Infrastructure who accidentally hardcoded credentials - which could have resulted in compromissing the entire core Python ecosystem.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

But, how do you change it to test with different settings?

When it's really messy, we:

check in a template file,
securely share a .env file (and .gitignore it)
and check in one line script that inflates the real config file (which we also .gitignore).