From 6ff5c8ac4a7e195fada7297906c72bc45c3cac4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Viktor Szakats <commit@vsz.me>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 22:47:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] badwords: exclude wordlist input file from search

To avoid hitting all lines in it. It doesn't happen in curl at the
moment, but may happen in the future or in other projects using this
script.

Closes #21819
---
 scripts/badwords | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/badwords b/scripts/badwords
index 09676bacd9..f833573af7 100755
--- a/scripts/badwords
+++ b/scripts/badwords
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ sub file {
 }
 
 my @filemasks = @ARGV;
-open(my $git_ls_files, '-|', 'git', 'ls-files', '--', @filemasks) or die "Failed running git ls-files: $!";
+open(my $git_ls_files, '-|', 'git', 'ls-files', '--', ":!:$file", @filemasks) or die "Failed running git ls-files: $!";
 my @files;
 while(my $each = <$git_ls_files>) {
     chomp $each;