Pre-commit hook fails with "error: Unable to read baseline."

[L0uisc]

• I'm submitting a ...

  • bug report
  • feature request

• What is the current behavior?

• Getting "error: Unable to read baseline." when registering git pre-commit hook

• If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem

• Run detect-secrets scan > .secrets.baseline

• Install pre-commit and register pre-commit hook as described on https://microsoft.github.io/code-with-engineering-playbook/continuous-integration/dev-sec-ops/secret-management/recipes/detect-secrets/

• git add something and commit

• Commit fail with

Detect secrets...........................................................Failed
- hook id: detect-secrets
- exit code: 1

usage: detect-secrets-hook.EXE [-h] [-v] [--version] [-C <path>]
                               [-c NUM_CORES] [--json] [--baseline FILENAME]
                               [--list-all-plugins] [-p PLUGIN]
                               [--base64-limit [BASE64_LIMIT]]
                               [--hex-limit [HEX_LIMIT]]
                               [--disable-plugin DISABLE_PLUGIN]
                               [-n | --only-verified]
                               [--exclude-lines EXCLUDE_LINES]
                               [--exclude-files EXCLUDE_FILES]
                               [--exclude-secrets EXCLUDE_SECRETS] [-f FILTER]
                               [--disable-filter DISABLE_FILTER]
                               [filenames ...]
error: Unable to read baseline.

• What is the expected behavior?

• Commit succeeds since no new secrets are added.

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

• The tool is unusable as it is now.

• Please tell us about your environment:

  • detect-secrets Version: 1.4.0
  • Python Version: 3.11.7
  • OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Business version 10.0.19045 Build 19045.
  • File type (if applicable): secrets baseline file
    secrets.baseline.txt (renamed to allow upload to github).

• Other information

[L0uisc]

File encoding was UTF-16 BOM. Converted to UTF-8 and fixed the issue.