Git-agecrypt
transparent file-level encryption for Git
Details
- External ID
- 47922955
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Git-agecrypt
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.38817480719794345
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Greetings HN! I've forked the excellent work done by [vlaci/git-agecrypt](https://github.com/vlaci/git-agecrypt), looks like the original project has not been maintained for a while, so I decided to pick it up, update all the dependencies and add some thorough testing.I like the ability to store sensitive data in public repositories, it's especially useful when bootstrapping new IaC repositories, you don't have anything at the beginning of a new project so there is no place yet to store secrets, this is "a way" of doing it.I know you can use tools like SOPS but I think the transparent approach offered by tools like this one or git-crypt really shine for many use cases.Looking forward to hear your feedback!
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- transparent file encryption for git
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The project is a Git filter/smudge tool wrapping the standard `age` encryption format, which involves standard CLI input/output streaming and existing cryptography libraries.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 179 days after the earliest competitor.
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