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title: Block secrets from leaking
slug: docs/block-secrets-from-leaking
icon: ✋
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createdAt: 2024-04-18T13:55:23.151Z
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What's better than cleaning up leaked secrets? Blocking them from leaking in the first place, of course!

TruffleHog offers two ways of preventing secrets from leaking in Git:


```mermaid
graph TD
A{Is the git server self-hosted?}
A -->|Yes| B[Prereceive hooks block secrets from being accepted at the git server]
A -->|No| C{Apply precommit hooks with TruffleHog}
C --> D[Prevent secrets from being pushed to the git server]
B --> E[End]
D --> E[End]
```

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[Pre-commit hooks](docId\:ZZSnWMyFYAV-EyLOHxpXj)
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[Pre-receive hooks](docId:84n9z_iTulB2670bKUTSs)
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