issues.exclude-dirs not behaving as expected #5438
Description
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- Yes, I'm using a binary release within 2 latest releases. Only such installations are supported.
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How did you install golangci-lint?
Official binary
Description of the problem
The issues.exclude-dirs configuration is ignored in case lint failure is due to typecheck linter.
This is a bit unintuitive that even explicitly excluded directories are failing a specific linter, and after some digging in the golangci-lint code it seems it is related to this PR.
This is a bit problematic when there is CI/CD tasks populate code that does not pass this linter, in build/CI/CD related directories not intended to be linted. Only workaround I have right now is to explicitly point out the directories that should be linted, which is a bit tedious.
Is this considered a bug or is it possible to have another config-option to instruct golangci-lint to not use typecheck linter even in certain directories?
Version of golangci-lint
$ golangci-lint --version golangci-lint has version 1.64.4 built with go1.24.0 from 04aec4f7 on 2025-02-12T21:58:21ZConfiguration
run: tests: false timeout: 5m issues: exclude-dirs: - build Go environment
$ go version && go env go version && go env go version go1.23.6 linux/amd64 GO111MODULE='' GOARCH='amd64' GOBIN='' GOCACHE='/home/user/.cache/go-build' GOENV='/home/user/.config/go/env' GOEXE='' GOEXPERIMENT='' GOFLAGS='' GOHOSTARCH='amd64' GOHOSTOS='linux' GOINSECURE='' GOMODCACHE='/home/user/golang/pkg/mod' GONOPROXY='comp.com/*' GONOSUMDB='comp.com/*' GOOS='linux' GOPATH='/home/user/golang' GOPRIVATE='comp.com/*' GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct' GOROOT='/home/user/golang/pkg/mod/golang.org/toolchain@v0.0.1-go1.23.6.linux-amd64' GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org' GOTMPDIR='' GOTOOLCHAIN='auto' GOTOOLDIR='/home/user/golang/pkg/mod/golang.org/toolchain@v0.0.1-go1.23.6.linux-amd64/pkg/tool/linux_amd64' GOVCS='' GOVERSION='go1.23.6' GODEBUG='' GOTELEMETRY='local' GOTELEMETRYDIR='/home/user/.config/go/telemetry' GCCGO='gccgo' GOAMD64='v1' AR='ar' CC='gcc' CXX='g++' CGO_ENABLED='1' GOMOD='/home/user/git/org/bridge/go.mod' GOWORK='' CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_CPPFLAGS='' CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g' PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config' GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -m64 -pthread -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build3213195946=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switchesVerbose output of running
$ golangci-lint cache clean $ golangci-lint run -v N/AA minimal reproducible example or link to a public repository
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