go-vet

Check Go source code and report suspicious constructs (e.g. lint your Go source files).

Check the Go package in the current directory

$ go vet

Check the Go package in the specified path

$ go vet [path/to/file_or_directory]

List available checks that can be run with go vet

$ go tool vet help

View details and flags for a particular check

$ go tool vet help [check_name]

Display offending lines plus N lines of surrounding context

$ go vet -c=[N]

Output analysis and errors in JSON format

$ go vet -json

go vet [ -n ] [ -x ] [ packages ]

Vet runs the Go vet command on the packages named by the import paths.

For more about vet, see 'godoc vet'.

For more about specifying packages, see go-packages(7).

To run the vet tool with specific options, run 'go tool vet'.

-n: The -n flag causes tool to print the command that would be executed but not execute it.
-x: The -x flag causes clean to print remove commands as it executes them.

This manual page was written by Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).