A wrapper that automatically calls the golangci-lint version matching your project.
It read a file with the name .golangci-version. The version format is as follows:
1.63.4
A good place to place it is at your repo root. You could also have one at your home or file system root. It keeps traversing up to find one and errors out if it doesn’t.
To prevent people from being confused why their machines complain about different issues in code reviews.
The confusion stems from different versions of golangci-lint producing different errors.
It doesn’t manage Go for you. Go version also affects golangci-lint output, the intention is to add a wrapper for Go as well.
It needs to be acknowledged that automatically managing tools is a bit spooky, so tools such as https://flox.dev may be better solutions to the problem I’m trying to solve. Although I haven’t tested how dynamic flox environments are, do they need reactivation in case the manifest changes when switching between branches.
Also currently it’s only built for Apple Silicon -based macOS. The homebrew formula might work for more operating systems, but I haven’t tested that.
Install with
brew install anttiharju/tap/vmatch-golangci-lint
Instead of calling golangci-lint, call vmatch-golangci-lint. And have a .golangci-version file as outlined above.
Main use case I was thinking about when developing this was VS Code integration. You can enable it as outlined here. Although please don’t commit the .vscode/settings.json into version control, people have individualised preferences.
A .vscode/settings.json for integrating vmatch-golangci-lint would have the following:
{
"go.lintTool": "golangci-lint",
"go.lintFlags": ["--fast"],
"go.alternateTools": {
"golangci-lint": "/opt/homebrew/bin/vmatch-golangci-lint"
}
}