You can definitely use pre commit hooks for this like the one of ggshield https://github.com/GitGuardian/ggshield https://github.com/GitGuardian/ggshield - reme

You can definitely use pre commit hooks for this like the one of ggshield https://github.com/GitGuardian/ggshield https://github.com/GitGuardian/ggshield - remediation is far quicker when the secret does't make it to the codebase!