diff --git a/.github/workflows/repo_check.yml b/.github/workflows/repo_check.yml
index fff655061759f..cdd8e31071b34 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/repo_check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/repo_check.yml
@@ -31,31 +31,8 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Check sizes of new Git objects
-        env:
-          # 1 MB ought to be enough for anybody.
+      - uses: james-callahan/gha-prevent-big-files@5bff33da9b9970f671495034b0f7255619b1b8e0
+        with:
+          # 1 MB in bytes. 1 MB ought to be enough for anybody.
           # TODO in case we may want to consciously commit a bigger file to the repo we may disable the check e.g. with a label
-          MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES: 1048576
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          git rev-list --objects ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}..${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }} \
-            > new-pr-objects.txt
-          exit_code=0
-          while read -r id name; do
-              size="$(git cat-file -s "${id}")"
-              if [ "${size}" -gt "${MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES}" ]; then
-                exit_code=1
-                if [ -z "${name}" ]; then
-                  name="$(git cat-file -t "${id}") ${id}"
-                fi
-                echo "Object ${id} [${name}] has size ${size}, exceeding ${MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES} limit." >&2
-                echo "::error::File ${name} has size ${size}, exceeding ${MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES} limit."
-                echo "::error file=${name}::This file has size ${size}, exceeding ${MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES} limit."
-              fi
-          done < new-pr-objects.txt
-          exit "${exit_code}"
-#      - uses: james-callahan/gha-prevent-big-files@5bff33da9b9970f671495034b0f7255619b1b8e0
-#        with:
-#          # 1 MB in bytes. 1 MB ought to be enough for anybody.
-#          # TODO in case we may want to consciously commit a bigger file to the repo we may disable the check e.g. with a label
-#          max-size: 1048576
+          max-size: 1048576