gofmt¶

Upstream: ships with the Go toolchain Check: format Stacks: go

What it does¶

gofmt is the canonical Go formatter. It is the arbiter of Go code style - there is no configuration. Lintel uses it as the format check on Go files.

How Lintel invokes it¶

gofmt -l <staged .go files>

-l: list files whose formatting differs from canonical. Lintel reports each listed file as a single warn finding (no line-level detail, because gofmt operates on the whole file).

Severity mapping¶

`gofmt` status	Lintel severity
file differs	`warn`

Files that format cleanly produce no finding.

Configuration¶

gofmt has no configuration. Lintel does not pin its hash because gofmt is part of the Go distribution you already verified when you installed Go.

scanners:
  gofmt:
    path: gofmt
    version: ""     # shares the Go toolchain version

Auto-fixing¶

lintel fmt --fix         # planned v1.1: run `gofmt -w`
gofmt -w .              # today: run upstream directly

In v1.0, lintel fmt reports only; you fix with the upstream tool or your editor.

Relationship to `goimports`¶

gofmt does not manage imports. Many Go teams prefer goimports (which is a superset that also reformats import blocks). Lintel does not ship a goimports adapter in v1.0 because the two are near-identical in output - if you need goimports, set scanners.gofmt.path: goimports and the adapter will pass through unchanged.