Respond correctly when a secret lands in Git history: rotate first, then purge from history and prevent recurrence with scanning and hooks.
## CONTEXT Committing a secret such as an API key, password, or token is a security incident the moment it is pushed, because anyone with repository access and anyone who later clones it can read history. The single most important and most overlooked truth is that removing the secret from history does not undo the…
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