🙈 dotenv-stripout

An easily-installable git filter which hides your projects' sensitive data, while maximising collaboration and reproducibility.

It's like nbstripout for your .env files.

Eg. your local .env looks like this

MY_SECRET_USERNAME=something-very-secret
MY_SECRET_PASSWORD=IqLTLrFviwHTDKWGZoR7uB2JtM1wjwE34MBwoztE

but your .env on GitHub looks like this

MY_SECRET_USERNAME=
MY_SECRET_PASSWORD=

If you want to know more, I've written a blog post about how and why I created this package.

Installation & Use

First, install the python package which does the stripping and manages the git filter.

pip install dotenv-stripout

Then, to install the filter in the current repo, run

dotenv-stripout install

To remove the filter from the current repo, run

dotenv-stripout uninstall

You can check whether the filter is installed in a repo by running

dotenv-stripout status

Adding the --global flag to any command will point them to your global git config instead, with the installed filter applying to commits in any repo.

You can also use the CLI to strip your actual working .env files in the current repo. Just run

dotenv-stripout