setup-git-crypt

This is a GitHub Action for setting up git-crypt in a GitHub Actions workflow. Git-crypt is a tool for encrypting and decrypting files in a Git repository. The action will download the source for the git-crypt CLI and build it in runtime, it may also be cached in the tools cache.

v5:

• works on ubuntu 22+
• uses node24 runtime
• uses a fork of git-crypt https://github.com/maxisam/git-crypt/

v4:

• works on ubuntu 22+
• uses node20 runtime
• uses a fork of git-crypt https://github.com/maxisam/git-crypt/

v3:

• works on ubuntu 20 and 22
• uses https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt

Pre-requisite for self-hosted runners

This action requires openssl and openssl-devel to be installed on your runner (exists by default on github hosted runners).

yum install openssl openssl-devel

Usage

To use this action in your workflow, add it as a step in your .yml file like this:

on: [push]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
      - uses: flydiverny/setup-git-crypt@v5
      - run: git-crypt unlock

Specifying a version

You can optionally specify a git-crypt version:

- uses: flydiverny/setup-git-crypt@v5
  with:
    version: '0.8.1'

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more details.