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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
sneak	fd78aeb003	Keep secrets out of the Docker build context at every depth (closes #29) ... The canonical .dockerignore was three lines -- .git, node_modules, .DS_Store -- while the canonical Dockerfile does `COPY . .`, so a developer's local .env, *.pem or *.key was shipped into the build context and could land in an image layer. Nothing surfaced it because .gitignore covers those patterns, so the files are invisible to every git-based check. The obvious repair, copying .gitignore's secret patterns across, is worse than the gap it closes. .dockerignore does not use .gitignore semantics: Docker matches with moby/patternmatcher, which is filepath.Match semantics plus a `**` extension compiled to a regexp. `*` does not cross `/`, and a pattern without a leading `**/` is anchored at the build-context root. A file listing .env, *.pem and *.key therefore reads as solved, reviews as solved, and protects only the repository root, while config/.env and certs/server.key still ship. The three-line file at least invited scrutiny; the transplanted form manufactures confidence and stops anyone looking. So every depth-independent pattern here carries the `**/` prefix and only genuinely root-anchored entries stay unprefixed. `**/node_modules` fixes a defect the three-line file had today for any nested node_modules, independently of the secret exposure. Coverage is not limited to the three patterns the issue names, because the enumeration found more shapes reaching the image. `**/*.env` covers the prod.env / local.env convention, which the .env and .env.* spellings miss entirely; `.envrc` is a secrets file by direnv convention; *.p12 and *.pfx are bundles carrying private keys; and id_rsa, id_dsa, id_ecdsa and id_ed25519 are the extensionless SSH keys that were covered before only when someone happened to append a .key suffix. Matching is case-sensitive, so `**/*.key` does not match certs/SERVER.KEY, which is reachable on the case-insensitive filesystems most laptops use. Doubling each pattern with an ALL-CAPS twin is not the fix: measured against the planted set it still ships certs/Server.Key and certs/Ca.Pem while reading as though case were handled, which is this issue's failure mode restated in a new place. The matcher supports character ranges, so every secret name is written that way -- `**/*.[kK][eE][yY]`, `**/*.[pP][eE][mM]`, `**/.[eE][nN][vV][rR][cC]`, `**/[iI][dD]_[rR][sS][aA]` and the rest. The extensionless SSH keys and .envrc are folded for the same reason the extensions are: on the very filesystems that make SERVER.KEY reachable, direnv reads .ENVRC and ssh reads ID_RSA, so exempting them would have contradicted the rule that justifies the folding. Since `*` matches the empty string, `**/*.[eE][nN][vV]` already covers a bare .ENV and no separate literal .env entry is needed; the literal one is gone rather than left to imply that case is unhandled there. Deliberately not covered: bare `key` and `pem` filenames, which no tool produces and which collide with legitimate paths (a `**/key` pattern would delete an internal/key/ package directory from the context); `**/id_*`, which would match ordinary source such as id_generator.go and ID_MAP.go; and *.crt and *.cer, which are public certificates rather than secrets and are sometimes a legitimate build input. Each of those is planted as a positive control and verified present in the image after the change. The one predictable false positive is a committed env template: `**/*.env` excludes example.env. The remedy travels with the file rather than living in a review thread -- the header comment and the policy both say to re-include it with a negation, `!docs/example.env`, and never to delete the pattern, which would reopen the exposure for everything else it covers. The OS and editor patterns are included on their own merits rather than by mirroring .gitignore. None of them is ever a build input, and editor state in particular churns under a developer's hands, so each one is a source of `COPY . .` invalidation carrying no information about the source tree. Now that the checks are keyed on CHECK_EPOCH rather than on accidental context churn, there is no reason left to keep churn in the context. Language build artifacts are deliberately absent: they are per-repo, and the file's header comment tells consuming repos to add their own host-built binaries, which is the case that actually bites -- a host `make build` drops a multi-megabyte artifact into the context where .gitignore hides it from every git-based check. That comment gives the anchored form explicitly, `/myapp` rather than `**/myapp`, because the prefixed spelling also matches cmd/myapp/ and deletes the package directory. The header comment is the only part of this guidance a consuming repo actually receives, since it is vendored with the file. .gitignore is untouched. Its semantics are the inverse: an unanchored pattern already matches at any depth, so `**/`-prefixing it produces a file that is wrong in a way that looks careful. That asymmetry is why "derive one from the other" was the wrong instruction, and it is now written down in REPO_POLICIES.md in both directions, together with the case-sensitivity rule, the negation remedy, and the requirement to verify by enumerating the image rather than by reading the patterns. Every consuming repo inherits .dockerignore by copy, so the trap has to live where the next person looks, not only be fixed once here. Both repo checklists gain the same requirements. Verified by planting 130 secret files -- twenty-six name shapes, including every capitalisation of .env, .env.*, prod.env, .envrc, id_rsa, id_ed25519, ca.pem, server.key, bundle.p12 and bundle.pfx, at five depths from the context root to a/b/c -- alongside nine positive controls, then building a standalone probe image doing `COPY . .` and listing what actually landed inside it. The patterns as first written leaked 35 of the 130: every .ENVRC, .Envrc, ID_RSA, Id_Rsa, ID_ED25519, .ENV.PRODUCTION and .Env.Local, at all five depths. A lowercase-only control leaks 80, so the probe is not vacuous. After this change: zero, with all nine controls still present, including internal/ID_MAP.go and certs/CA.CRT. Transferred-context size is recorded but load-bearing on nothing: an earlier run reported 2.18kB transferred while 43 files, five of them secrets, were in the image. BuildKit transfers only the delta from the previous build, so the number describes the transfer and not the contents. Planted files were removed and their absence confirmed against the filesystem rather than against `git status`, which could not have seen them. `make docker` re-run after the change: the check layer executed rather than being served from cache, so the CHECK_EPOCH verification still holds under the altered build context.	2026-08-09 16:42:00 +00:00
sneak	efbac580f9	Add repo scaffolding to meet repository standards ... Add .gitignore, LICENSE (MIT), Makefile, Dockerfile, .dockerignore, and pin prettier via yarn lockfile for integrity-checked markdown formatting. Update REPO_POLICIES.md self-reference to point to this repo. Format markdown files with prettier.	2026-02-22 15:40:29 +01:00