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A. Cedano
Asked: 2020-05-17 11:58:26 +0800 CST 2020-05-17 11:58:26 +0800 CST

How to protect sensitive files, preventing them from being synced to a public Github repository?

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I have a project made in synced with a public Github repository.

Now I just added a file with sensitive data to my project that I never want to sync.

Is it possible to mark it from now, so it won't be pushed to Github at the next sync or any other?

I was looking through the options and did not see that possibility. I think I did that during the sync process, but I don't want to sync again just for that file and on the other hand I don't want an automatic sync to happen and the file will end up in the repository.

Is there a way to mark it for no sync?

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Yes, with a file called .gitignoreand there you add the files or folders that you want to never be synchronized. For example:

    .gitignore

    *.log

    Prevents it from syncing any file with extension .log.

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  2. In the documentation you can find information about the .gitignore file , if it is not created you can create it in the root of your project

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    basically to ignore files you don't want to be versioned, if you don't want a whole directory to be added, add:

    <nombre directorio>/

    if you want files with a certain extension not to be added, add:

    *.<extensión de archivo>

    if you want a certain file not to be added, just add the name:

    <nombre de archivo>

    to add comments you just have to start with #:

    # Android Studio captures folder
captures/

    more information in the documentation .

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  3. You also have to git rm the file to remove it from the repository. If you want you can do git rm --cached to keep the local copy.

    Important this only deletes the repository file it is still in history. If you have sensitive information you should delete it from git history

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