.env- !!better!! 💯 Reliable

You might have seen it as .env-production , .env-staging , .env-backup , or .env-old . While seemingly innocent, the use of a hyphen after the .env prefix represents one of the most common, yet easily fixable, security vulnerabilities in web applications today.

.env ...you ignore only that exact file. You might have seen it as

# Wrong .env-production config/production.env or .env-old . While seemingly innocent

A developer needs a config for production debugging. They type: yet easily fixable

.env .env.backup They try to list every permutation manually. They forget to add .env-production . Or they rely on an IDE plugin that auto-generates a .gitignore without the wildcard.

Create .git/hooks/pre-commit :