enable-all in config file can't be overridden on command line?

[sb10]

1. Version of golangci-lint: golangci-lint --version
golangci-lint has version 1.16.0 built from 97ea1cb on 2019-03-31T19:48:46Z
2. Config file: cat .golangci.yml

linters:
  enable-all: true
  disable-all: false
  disable:
    - depguard
    - dupl
    - gochecknoglobals
    - gochecknoinits
    - gocyclo
    - gofmt
    - lll

3. Go environment: go version && go env

go version go1.12.5 linux/amd64
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/nfs/users/nfs_s/sb10/.cache/go-build"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/nfs/users/nfs_s/sb10/go"
GOPROXY=""
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/software/vertres/installs/go"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/software/vertres/installs/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="gcc"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="0"
GOMOD="/nfs/users/nfs_s/sb10/src/go/github.com/VertebrateResequencing/wr/go.mod"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build378946545=/tmp/go-build"

When I run golangci-lint run (or for my text editor) I want all but a certain few linters to be enabled, so my config file has enable-all: true and certain linters in the disable section.

But sometimes I want to run just some of those disabled linters. I hope to be able to do this:

golangci-lint run --disable-all -E gocyclo -E dupl

But I can't:

ERRO Running error: --enable-all and --disable-all options must not be combined

Is there another way I can do what I want? How do you keep using a single config file (which may have per-linter options in it), but sometimes override to only run 1 or 2 specific linters?

[jirfag]

hi, enable-all is considered a bad practice and will be deprecated soon. Please, don't use it.

[renta]

@jirfag Correct me if I wrong, but its an end of 2022 and "enable-all" is still valid. It's a quite confusing situation when you have a big config with "enable-all: true", tuned whole linters and try to fix them one-by-one in the project with a command like:

golangci-lint run --disable-all -E gomoddirectives

and receiving error like

ERRO Running error: --enable-all and --disable-all options must not be combined

It's a real problem because now with such approach I have to comment "enable-all" and "disable" sections in the config. Could you reopen this issue?

[ldez]

#1888
#2039

[renta]

@ldez Thank you! Can you reopen this issue also?

[ldez]

The management of the configuration is something global, we will not try to change the behavior only for one flag.