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diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/commands/credentials/USAGE b/railties/lib/rails/commands/credentials/USAGE index c8d3fb9eda..6b896ab02a 100644 --- a/railties/lib/rails/commands/credentials/USAGE +++ b/railties/lib/rails/commands/credentials/USAGE @@ -30,6 +30,21 @@ You could prepend that to your server's start command like this: RAILS_MASTER_KEY="very-secret-and-secure" server.start +=== Set up Git to Diff Credentials + +Rails provides `rails credentials:diff --enable` to instruct Git to call `rails credentials:diff` +when `git diff` is run on a credentials file. + +Running the command enrolls the project such that all credentials files use the +"rails_credentials" diff driver in .gitattributes. + +Additionally since Git requires the driver itself to be set up in a config file +that isn't tracked Rails automatically ensures it's configured when running +`credentials:edit`. + +Otherwise each co-worker would have to run enable manually, including on each new +repo clone. + === Editing Credentials This will open a temporary file in `$EDITOR` with the decrypted contents to edit |