Golinter is a fork of golint (github.com/golang/lint). The only difference is that you can specify which linting mistakes to report.
Golinter will install side-by-side with the official linter. However, since they share the same codebase (Golinter being a fork of the linter) the default functionality should be the same.
Golinter requires a supported release of Go.
go get -u github.com/DylanMeeus/golinter
git clone github.com/DylanMeeus/golinter
cd golinter
go build && go install
If you're not familiar with go lint read the documentation of golint first.
Golinter let's you specify which linting mistakes to report back.
For a list of all flags, you can run golinter -h.
By default, all possible linting mistakes will be reported back. Thus, by default golinter will act the same as golint.
But if we'd want to ignore blank imports and variable declaration errors we could tweak it:
golinter -lint_vardecls=false -lint_blank_imports=false ./...
With the following flags you can control which errors to report back:
- lint_blank_imports
- lint_context_args
- lint_context_key_types,
- lint_elses
- lint_error_returns
- lint_error_strings
- lint_errorf
- lint_errors
- lint_exported
- lint_inc_dec
- lint_names
- lint_ranges
- lint_package_comments
- lint_receiver_names
- lint_time_names
- lint_unexported_return
- lint_vardecls