The "source code" for this blog is hosted publicly on github. There are some posts-in-progress in the _drafts folder and I'd prefer that they not see the light of day until they are complete. On the other hand I'd like to store them on github along with the rest of the repository.

I'm trying out git-crypt to encrypt the files in the _drafts directory so that I can store them in the repository and edit them freely but not disclose their contents until they are ready.

I created a key and did git-crypt init in my repository, then created the file .gitattributes in the root of the repository with these contents:

That's why the files are named draft1-abc, draft2-xyz, etc. Naming the files after the blog post's eventual title would leak too much information. To post one I'll mv it from _drafts/draftN.md to _posts/YYYY-MM-DD-real-title.md.