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For some repositories, detect-secrets scan is hanging and never completes. #943

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For some repositories, detect-secrets scan is hanging and never completes.#943
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skindri-ot
opened on Jan 19, 2026

Hello,

For some GitHub repositories, detect-secrets scan is hanging and never completes. When we excluded the Base64HighEntropyString and HexHighEntropyString plugins, then it successfully ran. How to overcome this situation to have a complete scan?

Regards,
Sharan

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