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chore: add debug flag to Trufflehog run command #379

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Add debug flag to Trufflehog run command
anaivanov Nov 12, 2025
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Merge branch 'main' into ana/debug-trufflehog
xnyo Nov 13, 2025
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Merge branch 'main' into ana/debug-trufflehog
xnyo Nov 14, 2025
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion actions/internal/plugins/trufflehog/action.yml
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Expand Up @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ runs:
- name: Run Trufflehog
shell: bash
run: |
./bin/trufflehog filesystem "${FOLDER}" \
./bin/trufflehog filesystem "${FOLDER}" --debug \
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What would an example output be?

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I got a more informative output with this argument instead:

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./bin/trufflehog filesystem "${FOLDER}" --debug \
./bin/trufflehog filesystem "${FOLDER}" --log-level=5 \

The --debug flag logs more or less the same thing that's logged in the GitHub Actions annotation:

2025/11/14 17:53:37 [updater parent] run
2025/11/14 17:53:37 [updater parent] checking for updates...
2025/11/14 17:53:38 [updater parent] failed to get latest version: already up to date
2025/11/14 17:53:38 [updater parent] starting /opt/homebrew/bin/trufflehog
2025/11/14 17:53:38 [updater child#1] run
2025/11/14 17:53:38 [updater child#1] start program
2025-11-14T17:53:38+01:00	info-2	trufflehog	trufflehog 3.91.0
🐷🔑🐷  TruffleHog. Unearth your secrets. 🐷🔑🐷

2025-11-14T17:53:38+01:00	info-2	trufflehog	starting scanner workers	{"count": 10}
2025-11-14T17:53:38+01:00	info-2	trufflehog	starting detector workers	{"count": 80}
2025-11-14T17:53:38+01:00	info-2	trufflehog	starting verificationOverlap workers	{"count": 10}
2025-11-14T17:53:38+01:00	info-2	trufflehog	starting notifier workers	{"count": 10}
2025-11-14T17:53:38+01:00	info-0	trufflehog	running source	{"source_manager_worker_id": "xM5V6", "with_units": true}
2025-11-14T17:53:38+01:00	info-2	trufflehog	enumerating source	{"source_manager_worker_id": "xM5V6"}
::warning file=tests/simple-frontend-pnpm/provisioning/dashboards/dashboard.json,line=101,endLine=101::Found unverified NpmToken result 🐷🔑
2025-11-14T17:53:38+01:00	info-0	trufflehog	finished scanning	{"chunks": 1451, "bytes": 8887046, "verified_secrets": 0, "unverified_secrets": 1, "scan_duration": "372.441833ms", "trufflehog_version": "3.91.0", "verification_caching": {"Hits":0,"Misses":1,"HitsWasted":0,"AttemptsSaved":0,"VerificationTimeSpentMS":289}}
2025-11-14T17:53:38+01:00	info-2	trufflehog	exiting with code 183 because results were found
2025/11/14 17:53:38 [updater parent] prog exited with 183

--no-update --fail --github-actions \
--results=verified,unknown \
--include-detectors="${INCLUDE_DETECTORS}" \
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