Support local .config directory

[bersace]

Your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

golangci uses .golangci.yml file on top of project. This clutters root directory of projects.

Describe the solution you'd like.

I suggest to search for .config/golangci.yml too as described at https://github.com/pi0/config-dir

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Using environment variable. This work on CI but is not easy for mates.

Additional context.

No response

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[ldez]

Hello,

the configuration of golangci-lint is not a simple tool configuration: it depends on the project and should be committed inside the project.

If you run golangci-lint with the verbose flag, you will see that golangci-lint tries to find the configuration in several places:

$ golangci-lint run -v
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /home/user/a/b/c /home/user/a/b /home/user/a /home/user /home /]

I think that ~/.config is not the right place for tools like golangci-lint.

[bersace]

You confused XDG ~/.config and $PWD/.config as described at https://github.com/pi0/config-dir . Please reopen.

Regards,
Étienne

[ldez]

$PWD will not work because you can run golangci-lint inside a package.

To have something that works, we will have to look at all the .config inside the directory tree.

• ./
• /home/user/a/b/c
• /home/user/a/b/c/.config
• /home/user/a/b
• /home/user/a/b/.config
• /home/user/a
• /home/user/a/.config
• /home/user
• /home/user/.config
• /home
• /home/.config
• /
• /.config

[ldez]

🤔 maybe we can do that but the filename will stay .golangci.{yml|yaml|toml|json} (with a dot at the beginning)

🤔 There is a problem with paths, inside the configuration, relative to the configuration position.