Overview

Conventions shared by every git vault command.

Options follow the operation: git vault save -p production .env, or git vault recipient add -p production -r age....

Paths are relative to the current directory; -a uses stored repository-relative paths. Use -- before file names beginning with -. When -m and -F are omitted, a message with a git-vault: prefix is generated.

Common options

Many mutating commands accept:

Option	Purpose
-b, --branch NAME	Local vault branch (default: vault).
-p, --profile NAME	Profile (default: default).
-n, --new-branch	Create the named -b branch; fail if it already exists.
-B, --base REF	Creation base (default: vault); requires -n.
-m, --message TEXT	Commit message; repeat for paragraphs (not with -F).
-F, --message-file PATH	Read a UTF-8 commit message file (not with -m).
-h, --help	Show help.