From 8e6eaf70022672bd574f687e7fc4b45160f324d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mrmaxmeier <3913977+Mrmaxmeier@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2022 23:30:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] check_for_blobs.sh: respect gitignore (#876)

---
 scripts/check_for_blobs.sh | 27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/check_for_blobs.sh b/scripts/check_for_blobs.sh
index cf79db0490..03f844b1f7 100755
--- a/scripts/check_for_blobs.sh
+++ b/scripts/check_for_blobs.sh
@@ -1,19 +1,30 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-blobs=$(find . -type f -exec sh -c '
-  for f; do 
-    mimetype -b "$f" | grep -Eq "application/(x-object|x-executable)" && 
-    printf "%s\n" "$f"
-  done
-' sh {} +)
+declare -a blobs
 
-if [ -z "$blobs" ]
+KNOWN_GOOD_FILE_EXTENSIONS=("rs" "c" "h" "cc" "sh" "py" "toml" "yml" "json" "md" "gitignore" "png")
+
+while read -r file; do
+  # NOTE: mimetype detection spawns a perl process for each file and is pretty slow.
+  # we work around this by skipping files with known-good extensions.
+  ext="${file##*.}"
+  for skipExt in "${KNOWN_GOOD_FILE_EXTENSIONS[@]}"; do
+    if [ "$ext" = "$skipExt" ]; then
+      continue 2
+    fi
+  done
+  if mimetype -b "$file" | grep -Eq "application/(x-object|x-executable)"; then
+    blobs+=("$file");
+  fi
+done < <(git ls-files --exclude-standard --cached --others)
+
+if [ ${#blobs[@]} -eq 0 ]
 then
   echo "No object or executable files in the root directory"
   exit 0
 else
   echo "Hey! There are some object or executable file in the root directory!"
-  echo "$blobs"
+  echo "${blobs[@]}"
   echo "Aborting."
   exit 1
 fi