• cr1cket@sopuli.xyz
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    5 days ago

    Oh wow.

    That looks like an overly complicated solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. Synching stuff that is in git? Why not just use… git? Also npm… and the example has an env var named “DB_PASS” in it. You never put passwords in version control.

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      5 days ago

      It is generally considered a bad idea to use envs for passing secrets in general since envs for process n are available to other processes which have access and permission.

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      Exactly, you never check passwords into version control. So what happens when you need to share those values with other team members? The github example is not to put a .env file into a repo but to add the secrets to github’s native secret manager, which is what products like actions use to read envs.