Is golangci-lint detecting my auto-generated files? Is there a FAQ or docs?

[frederikhors]

I'm using gqlgen and I have many big auto-generated files.

Each golangci-lint run is slow.

Is golangci-lint detecting my auto-generated files? Is there a FAQ or docs?

I wanna exclude those files from scanning.

[ldez]

Hello,

you can use skip-dirs or skip-files.

https://golangci-lint.run/usage/configuration/#config-file

run:

  # which dirs to skip: issues from them won't be reported;
  # can use regexp here: generated.*, regexp is applied on full path;
  # default value is empty list, but default dirs are skipped independently
  # from this option's value (see skip-dirs-use-default).
  # "/" will be replaced by current OS file path separator to properly work
  # on Windows.
  skip-dirs:
    - src/external_libs
    - autogenerated_by_my_lib

  # default is true. Enables skipping of directories:
  #   vendor$, third_party$, testdata$, examples$, Godeps$, builtin$
  skip-dirs-use-default: true

  # which files to skip: they will be analyzed, but issues from them
  # won't be reported. Default value is empty list, but there is
  # no need to include all autogenerated files, we confidently recognize
  # autogenerated files. If it's not please let us know.
  # "/" will be replaced by current OS file path separator to properly work
  # on Windows.
  skip-files:
    - ".*\\.my\\.go$"
    - lib/bad.go

[frederikhors]

they will be analyzed

This is the problem.

I don't wanna analyze them!

[SVilgelm]

they must be loaded and analyzed otherwise other linters like unused can report false positive errors