prevent commiting unwanted changes using git hooks pre-commit

to avoid pushing stuff you don’t want, or do some basic validations you can create in your .git/hooks directory the pre-commit file containg e.g some bash script and returning exit 1 when some condition identifing things shouldn’t be commited is true, othersie exit 0 for OK case.

Remember to make this file executable with chmod +x pre-commit

E.g check if file secrets_vars.yml contains word password

if grep -q password secrets_vars.yml; then
  echo "please encrypt the secrets, found raw word password"
  exit 1
fi

exit 0

more on git hooks here: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-hooks