Invalid symlink causes error in the scan

[Jiri-Stary]

Environment

• ggshield version: 1.43.0
• Operating system (Linux, macOS, Windows): linux
• Operating system version: github-action
• Python version:

Describe the bug

Broken symlink stops the scan

Steps to reproduce:

1. create broken symlink e.g. .direnv/python-3.12.3/lib64
2. Run command ggshield secret scan path --exclude '.git/**/*' --exclude '.goldenfrog/**/*' --exclude '**/*.sarif' --recursive --yes --output gitguardian_scan.txt .
3. …

Actual result:

• ggshield secret scan path --exclude '.git//*' --exclude '.goldenfrog//' --exclude '**/.sarif' --recursive --yes --output gitguardian_scan.txt .
  Skipped .direnv/python-3.12.3/bin/python3: content is over 1,048,576 bytes
  Skipped apps/copilot/python/frontend/src/assets/Fonts/McKinseySans-Italic.otf: can't detect encoding
  Skipped apps/copilot/go_lang/frontend/src/assets/Fonts/McKinseySans-Italic.otf: can't detect encoding
  Skipped apps/copilot/go_lang/frontend/src/assets/Fonts/McKinseySans-MediumItalic.otf: can't detect encoding
  Skipped apps/copilot/python/frontend/src/assets/Fonts/McKinseySans-Medium.otf: can't detect encoding
  Skipped apps/copilot/python/frontend/src/assets/Fonts/McKinseySans-MediumItalic.otf: can't detect encoding
  Skipped apps/copilot/go_lang/frontend/src/assets/Fonts/McKinseySans-Light.otf: can't detect encoding
  Skipped .direnv/python-3.12.3/bin/python3.12: content is over 1,048,576 bytes
  Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '.direnv/python-3.12.3/lib64'

Re-run the command with --verbose to get a stack trace.

Warning: A new version of ggshield (v1.44.1) has been released (https://github.com/GitGuardian/ggshield).

Expected result:

ignore the broken symlink, scan the rest

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[6d7a]

Hi @Jiri-Stary, thank you for reporting this! We will look into it and keep you posted.