Making sure go source passes gofmt before committing

Here is a nice little snippet to make sure your go code passes gofmt before committing. Put this in .git/hooks/pre-commit:

#!/bin/sh
set -e
d=`mktemp -d --tmpdir gofmtcheck-XXXXXX`
git checkout-index --prefix "$d/" -a
ret=`find . -regex '.*\.go$' -exec gofmt -d '{}' \;`
if [ ! -z "$ret" ]; then
    echo "Not all go files are well formatted:"
    echo
    echo "$ret"
    echo
    exit 1
fi

Extra points for the person who extends this to stage the suggestions from gofmt in the index on request!

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One Response to Making sure go source passes gofmt before committing

  1. Jeff Pedantry says:

    ret=$(git ls-files ‘*.go’ | xargs gofmt -d)

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