Excluding specific set of files from lint issue report

Question

I am using gometalinterv2 in my Go project for linting. After the lint report is generated, the report file is linked to sonarqube for analysis and presentation.

I want to exclude some files like *_test.go from linting. I know there is a --exclude flag for gometalinterv2 to exclude folders. But since _test.go files are in the same folder/package as the source code, this won't work.

So is there any way to achieve this (either at linting stage or in sonar properties file)?

Answer 1

Add config file .gometalinter.json to the root of your project and specify rules for excluding:

{
    "exclude": [
        ".*_test.go",
        "/any/folder/"
    ]
}

Answer 2

I found another way after I marked @bayrinet's answer. The files (not just folders) to be excluded can also be passed to the command using the exclude flag like below -

>gometalinter.v2 ./... --exclude=somefolder --exclude=.*_test.go