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Working with push protection from the REST API

Learn your options for unblocking your push to GitHub using the REST API if secret scanning detects a secret in the content of your API request.

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About push protection from the REST API

Push protection prevents you from accidentally committing secrets to a repository by blocking pushes containing supported secrets.

The "Create a blob" and "Create or update file contents" endpoints in the REST API include push protection. See Git BLOB の REST API エンドポイント and リポジトリ コンテンツの REST API エンドポイント.

If you make a request with these endpoints whose content includes a supported secret, the REST API will return a 409 error, indicating that a secret has been detected.

To resolve the error, you can either:

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