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Detect and remove sensitive information from your code repositories to prevent leaks.

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Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑

gitleaks has 29k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 2.2k times. gitleaks is written mainly in Go. It has been in active development since 2018. gitleaks is available under the MIT license. Its main topics are ai-powered, ci-cd, cicd, cli.

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Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑

Is gitleaks open source?

gitleaks is an open-source project. It is released under the MIT license.

Is gitleaks free?

Yes. gitleaks is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does gitleaks use?

gitleaks is available under the MIT license.

What language is gitleaks written in?

gitleaks is written mainly in Go.

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