> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.trunk.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# golangci-lint

> Golangci-lint is a fast Go linters runner. Learn how to install, configure, and use golangci-lint effectively for Go projects.

[**golangci-lint**](https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint) is a linter for Go.

You can enable the golangci-lint linter with:

```shell theme={null}
trunk check enable golangci-lint
```

## Auto Enabling

golangci-lint will be auto-enabled if any *Go* files are present.

## Settings

golangci-lint supports the following config files:

* `.golangci.json`
* `.golangci.toml`
* `.golangci.yaml`
* `.golangci.yml`

You can move these files to `.trunk/configs` and `trunk check` will still find them. See [Moving Linters](../configure-linters#moving-linters) for more info.

## Usage Notes

Make sure your go version in `go.mod` matches Trunk's go runtime version. At the time of this writing, Trunk's default go runtime version is `1.21.0`. You can find out what it is via `trunk print-config`, and look for the `runtime` section, and you can override the default version in your `trunk.yaml` via:

```yaml theme={null}
runtimes:
  enabled:
    - go@1.21.0
```

## Links

* [golangci-lint site](https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint)
* golangci-lint Trunk Code Quality [integration source](https://github.com/trunk-io/plugins/tree/main/linters/golangci-lint)
* Trunk Code Quality's [open source plugins repo](https://github.com/trunk-io/plugins/tree/main)