govet vs go vet

[silverwind]

Are the govet linter and go vet the same thing? I'm looking to use go vet and am wondering whether the govet linter would cover everything that go vet does. The docs are not clear about this at all.

[ldez]

yes and no.

go vet is a command line that runs passes.

govet is an internal golangci-lint linter that runs the passes used by go vet.

govet does the same analysis as go vet.

[silverwind]

Thanks, I opened #4366 to clarify the docs.

[Antonboom]

@silverwind be careful with fact that in the same time go vet could doing more checks than golangci-lint/govet (until we update the last one).