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Products that do what Git-agecrypt – transparent file-level encryption for Git does

Greetings HN! I've forked the excellent work done by [vlaci/git-agecrypt](https://github.com/vlaci/git-agecrypt), looks like the original project has not been maintained for a while, so I decided to pick it up, update all the dependencies and add some thorough testing. I like the ability to store sensitive data in public repositories, it's especially useful when bootstrapping new IaC repositories, you don't have anything at the beginning of a new project so there is no place yet to store secrets, this is "a way" of doing it. I know you can use tools like SOPS but I…

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Transcrypt – transparently encrypt files within a Git repository▲8
2014 · github.com
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Decentrafile▲144
Free anonymous decentralized cloud storage for everyone
2021
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Gitzero▲105
Encrypted Git hosting for teams and enterprises.
2016
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End to End Encryption File Sharing▲90
Securely share sensitive files
2022
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layer▲88
Keep local repo files out of git without changing .gitignore
Mar 2026
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Gitorials – Tutorials as Git Repos▲147
2017 · gitorials.com
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Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go▲100
2020 · git.mysticmode.org
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A versioned filesystem inspired by Git▲115
2012 · github.com
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Gut▲98
An easy-to-use git alternative to version-control your code
2023
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Opacity Storage▲73
Private encrypted file storage, powered by crypto.
2019
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Client-Side Encrypted Gist▲16
2016 · github.com
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GitPrint.com – A site to easily print Markdown files on GitHub▲68
2014 · gitprint.com
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Gitnonymous – Contribute anonymously to Git repositories over Tor▲46
2015 · github.com
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AxKeyStore▲31
Securely store your secrets in GitHub Private Repo
Feb 2026
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A Christian Git wrapper for sanctifying your version control▲11
2021 · github.com
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age file encryption GUI for Windows – winage▲9
2021 · github.com
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Oci2git – Convert OCI container images into Git repositories▲5
Hi HN, I built a small tool called oci2git, which converts OCI container images into Git repositories. Each layer in the container image becomes a separate Git commit. I created it to make it easier to inspect and reason about container image contents. Instead of dealing with compressed tarballs or running docker diff, you can just browse the resulting Git repo, run git diff, use git blame, or even bisect layers. It's a new way to debug, audit, and understand how container layers evolve. It's written in Rust and currently supports images from local OCI layouts and remote registries (like…
2025 · github.com
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Classified.html, encryption solution that is just a file, web/terminal▲19
2021 · github.com
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A Cryptic Hunt Website▲17
Hi HN!, We're a group of High Schooler's who have made a website for an international cryptic hunt we have been organizing. Everything has been built from the ground up and has been open sourced. We'd love feedback on our work. And if it interests you, feel free to register and try a level or two! URL: https://halocrypt.com/ Source: https://github.com/halocrypt We're particularly proud of our frontend, since we have used a framework we built ourselves!
2021
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A Git client for MicroPython microcontrollers (like the $6 ESP32)▲7
A tiny (yocto) git client for MicroPython microcontrollers / other memory-constrained environments (<100k) like the $6 ESP32. It speaks to git HTTP/HTTPS servers using the ubiquitous git "smart client" protocol. It supports branches/tags, shallow clones and sparse checkouts (ie: only checking out a sub-directory of a larger project). I wrote it to remotely deploy/update code over low-bandwidth connections.
2023 · github.com
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RestfulGit – Open-source restful API for accessing Git data▲16
2013 · github.com
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Simple Git Workflow for Effective Teams▲7
Hi HN, My friends and I worked at Meta & Google. Once we’d left we realised a lot of the internal tooling didn’t have parity on the outside. Specifically, version control tools outside big tech are much harder to use than Google’s Critique and Facebook’s Phabricator, etc. Git is powerful but notoriously difficult to use [0]. Existing Git clients don’t make life much easier, exposing all the complexity by default. In practice we don’t need an equally complex GUI, and version control can be much easier to use. In our experience, it works best to expose a small number of features for an…
2023 · trunkflow.com
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Enforcing time-bounded technical debt with Git history▲6
I kept running into the same problem in large codebases: “temporary” code almost never gets removed. People add TODOs, FIXMEs, or quick hacks to hit a deadline, and six months later nobody remembers why they’re there or who owns them. They quietly turn into production bugs. I built a small CLI that treats those comments as time-bounded instead of permanent. You can attach an expiry date to a TODO in the code, and when the date passes, CI fails and points to exactly where the expired code lives. It works by: scanning comments across any language parsing structured annotations and optionally…
Jan 2026 · github.com
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Phase – open-source encryption and key management for developers▲9
Hello HN! We are developers and security researchers making tools for developers to encrypt data at an application level while maintaining sole control of their keys. We believe that data should always be encrypted unless it is part of an active computation. Encryption is relatively easy, but key management is challenging. There are plenty of encryption tools and SDKs that are out there (Hashicorp Vault, AWS KMS etc.) but we are focusing on ease and speed of implementation, developer experience and self custody of keys. A few months ago, we quit our jobs and started full time on Phase. So…
2023 · github.com

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