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A comment on Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files. Parent comment

Re:Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,12... by post-it on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:37PM (#50410223)
It's gitignored by default.
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Re:Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,12... by TheRoque on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:11PM (#50410351)
The default of who or what ? Git ignore is empty "by default", inexistant even
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Re:Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,12... by post-it on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:33PM (#50410436)
When Claude generates the file, it also generates a .gitignore for it or fills in the existing one.
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Re:Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,12... by doginasuit on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:16AM (#50411625)
If this is the intended behavior, a quick search of github and the article's findings seem to suggest it doesn't work.
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