Sealed record A confession of secret exposure
I committed .env to the repository with the message 'add config'. The config included three production keys.
Absolution
You named it config because secret was harder to type into history. Git remembers, but so does mercy. You are absolved.
Penance
Add .env to .gitignore in every project you touch this week, asked or not. This once, the unrequested change is your penance. Rotate the keys.
Go in peace
His secrets were plaintext, and the world read them.
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