Security: Improve .gitignore to prevent sensitive file exposure

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Summary

• Added entries to prevent accidental commit of private keys and certificates
• Added protection for additional environment file patterns
• Added entries to ignore secrets and credentials directories
• Added log file patterns to prevent sensitive data exposure

Security Fixes

This PR addresses potential security risks identified during Esprit scan 92d8da77:

• Prevents accidental exposure of .pem, .key, .p12, .pfx files
• Protects .env.production and .env.development files
• Ignores secrets/ and credentials/ directories
• Excludes debug logs that may contain sensitive information

Test Plan

• Verified new entries don't conflict with existing patterns
• Confirmed no sensitive files are currently tracked

🔒 Generated by Esprit Security Scanner

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PR Type

Bug fix, Enhancement

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Description

• Added .gitignore entries to prevent accidental commit of sensitive files including private keys (.pem, .key), certificates (.p12, .pfx), and environment configuration files

• Added protection for environment file patterns (.env.production, .env.development) to prevent exposure of sensitive credentials

• Added entries to ignore secrets/ and credentials/ directories

• Excluded debug log file patterns that may contain sensitive information

• Verified new entries don't conflict with existing patterns and confirmed no sensitive files are currently tracked

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Diagram Walkthrough

flowchart LR
  A["Security Scan<br/>Esprit 92d8da77"] -->|"Identifies<br/>sensitive files"| B[".gitignore<br/>Updates"]
  B -->|"Prevents exposure of"| C["Private Keys<br/>& Certificates"]
  B -->|"Protects"| D["Environment<br/>Files"]
  B -->|"Ignores"| E["Secrets &<br/>Credentials Dirs"]
  B -->|"Excludes"| F["Debug Logs"]

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Release Notes

• Chores
  • Updated repository ignore rules to exclude sensitive files, including private keys, certificates, environment files, and credentials directories from version control.

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Walkthrough

Updates .gitignore to add security-focused ignore patterns for private keys, certificates, environment configuration files, secrets directories, and log files, preventing accidental version control exposure of sensitive data.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Change Summary
Security-focused .gitignore entries \.gitignore	Added ignore patterns for private keys (*.pem, *.key, *.p12, *.pfx), environment files (.env.production, .env.development), secrets and credentials directories, and log files (*.log, npm-debug.log*, yarn-debug.log*, yarn-error.log*)

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

Poem

🔐 A rabbit hops with careful cheer,
Secrets safe, no keys laid bare,
Environment whispers tucked away tight,
Logs and certs out of sight,
Security blessed in .gitignore light! 🐰

Pre-merge checks and finishing touches

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately and specifically describes the main change: adding security-focused entries to .gitignore to prevent sensitive file exposure.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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• Commit unit tests in branch esprit/security-fixes-92d8da77

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

.gitignore (1)

15-27: Well-structured security additions with good coverage of core sensitive file types.

The new patterns effectively address the stated security fixes. The syntax is correct, the comment is clear with scan traceability, and the additions follow existing conventions.

One minor observation: the .env.production and .env.development patterns on lines 20-21 are already matched by the existing *.env pattern on line 10, making them technically redundant. That said, being explicit can improve readability and maintainability for future contributors.

For even more comprehensive coverage, consider including additional certificate/key formats that may appear in your projects:

 *.pem
 *.key
 *.p12
 *.pfx
+*.crt
+*.cer
+*.cert

This ensures protection against other common certificate formats. However, this is optional and depends on what your project actually uses.

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• .gitignore (1 hunks)