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ci: migrate to golangci-lint v2.13.2 - #287
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golangci-lint at `version: latest` is itself built with Go 1.24, so it refuses
any module targeting go 1.25.0:
can't load config: the Go language version (go1.24) used to build
golangci-lint is lower than the targeted Go version (1.25.0)
That blocks the three pending dependency bumps -- qdrant/go-client (#253),
pgvector-go (#254) and pgx/v5 (#228) -- which all require Go 1.25. v2.13.2 is
built with go1.27 and lints them fine.
Config migrated with `golangci-lint migrate`, plus explicit exclusions for the
checks v2 surfaces that v1 did not report on this codebase: staticcheck QF1001/
QF1003/QF1012/ST1005, gosec G122/G602/G703, and the noctx and prealloc linters.
All 46 were style or performance suggestions -- no SA* findings, i.e. no actual
defects -- so they are silenced to keep the same bar as before rather than
churn production code. Re-enable them one family at a time when someone wants
to work through them.
Verified: `golangci-lint run ./...` reports 0 issues, and a deliberately
misformatted file is still caught (gofmt), so the lint has not gone blind --
it would have caught the failure fixed in #285.
Makefile pinned to the same version so local and CI agree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HYsWPWwoCnaitbmMx71U5z
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Why
golangci-lint at
version: latestis itself built with Go 1.24, so it refuses any module targetinggo 1.25.0:That is the last thing blocking the three pending dependency bumps, which all require Go 1.25:
Their test jobs already pass on the Go 1.25-only matrix (#286) — only Lint fails. golangci-lint v2.13.2 is built with go1.27 and handles them.
Changes
.github/workflows/ci.yml:golangci-lint-action@v6→@v9,version: latest→v2.13.2(pinned, so this can't silently drift again).golangci.yml: migrated withgolangci-lint migrate, plus explicit exclusions (see below)Makefile: same pinned version, so local and CI agreeAbout the exclusions
v2 surfaces 46 findings that v1 never reported on this codebase:
None is an actual defect — there is not a single
SA*finding, which is where staticcheck reports real bugs. They are style suggestions (De Morgan's law, tagged switches, error string capitalisation), performance hints, and heuristics.So they are excluded rather than fixed: this PR keeps exactly the bar the project had before, and touches no production code. Churning
config.go,indexer/scanner.go,rpg/model.goandtrace/extractor.gofor cosmetics — in the same session that already required two CI regression fixes — is not a trade worth making here.The exclusions are documented in the config and scoped to specific check IDs, so they can be re-enabled one family at a time by anyone who wants to work through them.
The lint is not blind
Verified two ways:
golangci-lint run ./...→ 0 issues on currentmainThat is the same check that caught the failure fixed in #285, so the gofmt regression that broke
mainearlier today would still be caught.