How do you hide .git project directories?

Question

Now that I have nginx installed, I need to hide my .git directories. Which rewrite do I need to stop prying eyes? And where in the server {} or http {} block will it go?

Answer 1

 http { server { location ~ /\.git { deny all; } } } 

This location directive will deny access to any .git directory in any subdirectory.

Note. This location block must be before your main location block so that it can be evaluated first.

Answer 2

Hidden directories and files should never be available on the Internet. General answer to your question:

  location ~ /\. { return 403; } 

This prohibits access to .git, .svn, .htaccess files and similar files in any subdirectory.

Answer 3

This will not allow anyone to click http://example.com/.git , but if you work in a similar subdirectory http://example.com/example/.git , this will not work. You really need to:

 location ~ .*/\.git { deny all; }