Question

A developer at your company attempts to push a commit that contains what GitHub identifies as a valid cloud provider access key. Push Protection blocks the push. The developer is under deadline pressure and is certain the string is a placeholder used only in a local test fixture. As the security lead, what is the correct guidance for the developer to proceed while preserving your team's ability to review the decision later?

Accepted Answer

Instruct the developer to select a bypass reason (such as 'It's used in tests') when overriding the block, which allows the push and records the bypass event for security team review

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Have the developer disable Push Protection for the repository temporarily, push the commit, and then re-enable it afterward

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Tell the developer to force-push with the --no-verify flag, since Push Protection is only a client-side Git hook that can be skipped

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Advise the developer to dismiss the resulting secret scanning alert as a false positive before pushing so the block is cleared