gitz VS noseyparker

When I develop a big feature, I do it on a private branch, and then I commit and push an "anonymous" commit (using this) whenever I have made any progress.

where git st is here (a lot like git status.)

No, there's no reason to preserve commit messages you used during development.

When I am developing, I make many tiny commits with an automatically generated title ('Modify util/files.py') each time my tests pass, or really, when I do anything of value. (I use `git-infer`: https://github.com/rec/gitz/blob/master/git-infer)

This makes it impossible for me to lose work, and acts like a coarse-grained undo for me, where I can quickly move back and forth between spots that the tests worked if I decide I'm going the wrong way, or create a new branch, move back a bit, and make some changes and compare.

_Before anyone sees this code_ I rebase it down to a logical sequence extremely-carefully named and organized commits. (The word "manicured" has been used more than once.)

As I go through code review, I make tiny commits and at the end, rebase them into my carefully-named commits.

I create at least five commit IDs for each final commit I created. No one wants to see these.

I spend considerable time organizing everything so just the information you need to see is in the final commits. All the information should be there.

I have a truly evil command in my gitz package https://github.com/rec/gitz called git adjust.

I have a bunch of git utilities to do common chores, but more, I tend to stack up a lot of commands at once in the command line separated by &&.

This isn't just academic - it affects every git tool. I have a collection of git utilities, fairly high quality, but a lot of my favorite ones don't work over merge commits, not because I was lazy but because I simply couldn't figure out a way to do it that made sense in every case.

Yes!

Sometimes a file has no extension. Other times the extension is a lie. Still other times, you may be dealing with an unnamed bytestring and wish to know what kind of content it is.

This last case happens quite a lot in Nosey Parker [1], a detector of secrets in textual data. There, it is possible to come across unnamed files in Git history, and it would be useful to the user to still indicate what type of file it seems to be.

I added file type detection based on libmagic to Nosey Parker a while back, but it's not compiled in by default because libmagic is slow and complicates the build process. Also, libmagic is implemented as a large C library whose primary job is parsing, which makes the security side of me jittery.

I will likely add enabled-by-default filetype detection to Nosey Parker using Magika's ONNX model.

[1] https://github.com/praetorian-inc/noseyparker

Yes and no.

On the one hand, Nosey Parker is effectively a special-purpose `grep` with a bunch of security-relevant patterns built-in, including one for PEM-encoded keys: <https://github.com/praetorian-inc/noseyparker/blob/main/data...>

On the other hand, to naively run the check you describe, you would need access to a copy of all of GitHub, which isn't feasible.

What you can do with Nosey Parker is use its GitHub enumeration features to specify your GitHub organization and a list of GitHub usernames you are interested in, and scan against just those. This will implicitly list all the relevant public repositories, clone them, and scan their entire history.

For your use case, another thing you could do is use the new GitHub code search (<https://cs.github.com>) to regex search for particular keys or tokens. That new search seems to cover lots of the public content available on GitHub.

Also, to put some color on this use case: in offensive security engagements (aka "red team" engagements) at Praetorian, we frequently find leaked credentials or tokens on GitHub or elsewhere, which allow us deeper access into the client's systems. It's a significant problem.

A tool just got open-sourced called Nosey Parker that scans commits and git history for secrets. You could look at Nosey Parker's source code to see how they scan commits and design your tool based on that.