gitleaks VS pre-commit-hooks

Compare gitleaks vs pre-commit-hooks and see what are their differences.

pre-commit-hooks

git pre-commit hooks that work with http://pre-commit.com/ (by jumanjihouse)
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gitleaks pre-commit-hooks
35 3
15,197 112
2.6% 0.9%
8.2 0.0
9 days ago 6 months ago
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MIT License MIT License
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gitleaks

Posts with mentions or reviews of gitleaks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-11.
  • How to use Lefthooks in your node project?
    4 projects | dev.to | 11 Apr 2024
    install gitleaks in your machine gitleaks
  • I Analyzed StackOverflow for Secrets
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2023
    > gitleaks : fatal error: runtime: out of memory

    Should be fixed now: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/pull/1292. Thanks for highlighting this simple change I've been putting off :)

  • [Help Needed] Securing Customized Gitleaks and Backend Communication?
    1 project | /r/cybersecurity | 16 Nov 2023
    I work in IT and we're enhancing our 'Shift Left Security' approach to prevent sensitive data leaks in our GitHub repositories. We've customized Gitleaks to send git-related information (like remote repository, author details, commit hash etc.) to our backend after each commit. This setup helps us monitor Gitleaks usage among our developers. (gitleaks)
  • Go Security Scanner
    2 projects | /r/golang | 8 Jun 2023
    Cool. What features/capabilities are different compared to gitleaks?
  • My boss keeps committing his creds into git
    6 projects | /r/devops | 24 May 2023
    To add my anecdote, testing out Trufflehog versus Gitleaks and detect-secrets the other tools seemed superior on detection rate and easier to work with.
  • Tools for very basic security audits
    1 project | /r/msp | 4 May 2023
    Some tools to consider: Gitleaks - open-source secret scanner for git repositories, files, and directories. Retire.js - dependency check tool for client JS code. Censys - It’s a search engine that you can use, for example, to scan any IP address and check open ports, software versions, location of the servers, etc. If you want to check more tools, you can download this free ebook with a list of recommended security tools: https://brightinventions.pl/blog/app-security-free-ebook/ The listed tools are free or offer free trials.
  • About secret scanning
    1 project | /r/opensourcesecurity | 25 Apr 2023
    bonuses: - https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog - https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks
  • Someone has access to my private repos = I lost 140k
    1 project | /r/github | 19 Apr 2023
    I GET IT I need to follow best practice and not upload any sensitive information, even if its a private repo. But through my 10 yeras of coding it happened twice. However these keys only lived in 2 areas: my laptop and GITHUB. My laptop is pretty secured, and the timing of the above events just make me really think someone internally at Github is running https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks on private repos he / she has access to.
  • any open source that checks security vulnerabilities in code?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 8 Mar 2023
    Maybe https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks is what you are looking for
  • Securing the software supply chain in the cloud
    9 projects | dev.to | 10 Dec 2022
    Gitleaks

pre-commit-hooks

Posts with mentions or reviews of pre-commit-hooks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-13.
  • Implementing Quality Checks In Your Git Workflow With Hooks and pre-commit
    6 projects | dev.to | 13 Dec 2023
    $ vim README.md #changes here $ git add .pre-commit-config.yaml README.md $ git commit [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/jumanjihouse/pre-commit-hooks. [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/jumanjihouse/pre-commit-hooks. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... Trim Trailing Whitespace.................................................Passed Fix End of Files.........................................................Passed Check Yaml...............................................................Passed Check Toml...........................................(no files to check)Skipped Check for added large files..............................................Passed tox-validation.......................................(no files to check)Skipped tox-docs.............................................(no files to check)Skipped pdm-lock-check.......................................(no files to check)Skipped Check markdown files.....................................................Passed
  • Modern Python setup for quality development
    11 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2022
    repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v4.0.1 hooks: - id: check-added-large-files - id: check-ast - id: check-builtin-literals - id: check-case-conflict - id: check-docstring-first - id: check-executables-have-shebangs - id: check-json - id: check-merge-conflict - id: check-symlinks - id: check-toml - id: check-vcs-permalinks - id: check-xml - id: check-yaml args: [--allow-multiple-documents] - id: debug-statements - id: detect-aws-credentials args: [--allow-missing-credentials] - id: destroyed-symlinks - id: end-of-file-fixer - id: fix-byte-order-marker - id: fix-encoding-pragma args: [--remove] - id: forbid-new-submodules - id: mixed-line-ending args: [--fix=auto] - id: name-tests-test args: [--django] - id: requirements-txt-fixer - id: trailing-whitespace - repo: local hooks: - id: black name: black entry: poetry run black language: system types: [python] - id: flake8 name: flake8 entry: poetry run flake8 language: system types: [python] - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort rev: "5.9.1" hooks: - id: isort args: - --profile - black - --filter-files - repo: https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint.git rev: v1.26.1 hooks: - id: yamllint args: [-c=.yamllint.yaml] - repo: https://gitlab.com/devopshq/gitlab-ci-linter rev: v1.0.2 hooks: - id: gitlab-ci-linter args: - "--server" - "https://your.gitlab.server" # Need env var GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN with gitlab api read token - repo: https://github.com/commitizen-tools/commitizen rev: v2.17.11 hooks: - id: commitizen stages: [commit-msg] - repo: https://github.com/jumanjihouse/pre-commit-hooks rev: 2.1.5 # or specific git tag hooks: - id: forbid-binary - id: shellcheck - id: shfmt
  • TIL: Use pre-commit hook - the framework
    7 projects | dev.to | 14 Jun 2021
    shellcheck (jumanjihouse/pre-commit-hooks)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gitleaks and pre-commit-hooks you can also consider the following projects:

trufflehog - Find and verify credentials

markdownlint-cli - MarkdownLint Command Line Interface

trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

commitizen - Create committing rules for projects :rocket: auto bump versions :arrow_up: and auto changelog generation :open_file_folder:

git-secrets - Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories

bandit - Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.

pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

safety - Safety checks Python dependencies for known security vulnerabilities and suggests the proper remediations for vulnerabilities detected.

husky - git hooks made easy

gitlab-ci-linter

semgrep - Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.

pre-commit-hooks - Some out-of-the-box hooks for pre-commit