Daniel Marino
1 November 2024
Resolving Gitleaks Workflow Errors on Autogenerated Files in GitHub

Security checks on GitHub can occasionally impede your workflow while updating a R package with C++ because of false positives. Autogenerated files like as RcppExports.R may be flagged as potentially dangerous by Gitleaks, a technique for identifying sensitive information. This tutorial provides doable solutions to get around these problems, such as making a custom GitHub Action to exclude particular routes or utilizing a .gitleaksignore file. By avoiding misidentified tokens from interrupting small updates, these methods guarantee that the workflow proceeds without hiccups.