Dotenv: Difference between revisions

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-(not to be confused with [[.envrc]])
+(not to be confused with [[direnv]] and its [[.envrc]])
-.env files are intended as an ,
+'''{{inlinecode|.env}}''' files are intended to keep environment variables that parts of your project should pick up,
-that is easy to keep out of source management,
+that is easy to keep out of source management - that is, it is a name you can know shouldn't be there.
-that is specifically separate from any code
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-Is it still a good habit to put all your secrets in separate place
+Is it still a decent habit?
-that, out of being a common convention, you can recognize as "don't share this?"
+: Sure.
-: Yup.
+:: it makes it much easier to not put secrets into code
+:: it makes it much easier to not accidentally share it (you can argue it should have been called ''secrets-do-not-share'' but eh...)

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