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The only problem I can see it "leaking" some information?

"I see this guy has 'passwords/'" on his local machine, let's somehow sneakily merge new .gitignore to make them available publicly.

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sure, if "this guy" does "git add '*'" and neither reviews the commit, nor even does git status to see a file list of it and just pushes it straight to remote. if that's happening i think your repo might have other problems though

I mean this doesn't really leak anything; passwords are usually stored in `.env` files anyway

It's not exactly best practice to store passwords in version control.

yes I'm aware.. this is why .env should always be in .gitignore

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