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dotvault Keeps Every Secret Version, Allowing Rollback After Accidental Overwrites

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This is part 4 of a 12-part series on dotvault, a tool for managing secrets from a laptop through CI and AI agents. In dotvault, writing a key creates a new version rather than destroying the previous value, so an accidental overwrite such as pasting a staging database URL over a dev one can be undone. The command dotvault rollback restores an earlier version, and the restore is recorded as a new version so history is preserved. Keys can be added via the console or CLI, with dotvault versions listing each version's number, timestamp, writer and value hash. The article notes that deleting a key also keeps its version history visible.

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