Repo Security Scanner - Search secrets from GitHub

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repo-security-scanner

  • CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a git repo, eg passwords, private keys
  • Run it against your entire repo's history by piping the output from git log -p

Installation

  1. Download the latest stable release of the CLI tool for your architecture
  2. Extract the tar and move the scanrepobinary to somewhere in your $PATH, eg /usr/bin

Usage

Check the entire history of the current branch for secrets.
$ git log -p | scanrepo