golangci/golangci-lint

golines formatter: baseformatter option not available

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ppipada commented

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Description of the problem

As of now the base-formatter option from golines is not available to modify via golangci lint.

Option documentation in the fork:

This means that we cannot use other formatters (like gofumpt), along with golines.

I see that in the integration file in this particular repo, the base command is hardcoded.
Can this option be propogated in the config so that we can use golines with other formatters as needed?

Version of golangci-lint

$ golangci-lint --version
# Paste output here

golangci-lint has version 2.6.0 built with go1.25.3 from fb09c37 on 2025-10-29T19:41:04Z

Configuration

# paste configuration file or CLI flags here
formatters:
  enable:
    - golines
  exclusions:
    paths:
      - third_party$
      - builtin$
  settings:
    golines:
      # Shorten single-line comments.
      # Default: false
      shorten-comments: true

Go environment

$ go version && go env
# paste output here

go version go1.25.3 linux/amd64

Verbose output of running

$ golangci-lint cache clean
$ golangci-lint run -v
# paste output here

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A minimal reproducible example or link to a public repository

// add your code here

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Supporter

alexandear commented

This means that we cannot use other formatters (like gofumpt), along with golines.

It's possible to enable gofumpt along with golines in config:

formatters:
  enable:
    - golines
    - gofumpt
  exclusions:
    paths:
      - third_party$
      - builtin$
  settings:
    golines:
      # Shorten single-line comments.
      # Default: false
      shorten-comments: true
ldez commented

Hello,

Inside golangci-lint, the base formatter is hardcoded because other formatters are already available in golangci-lint. https://golangci-lint.run/docs/configuration/file/#formatters-configuration.

The base formatter is mainly a CLI option for golines.
This option doesn't make sense inside golangci-lint and will not be added.

ppipada commented

Thank you for your response !