I am working on a large go codebase and go code doesn't seem to be properly formatted.
I want to know if there is an option in go that will in some way assert me that what places I need to change the code styling. I am not using any IDE. go fmt does that job but I do not want the styling to be taken care of automatically. I could not find any option / parameter that I could pass to go fmt to do the same.
Is there any way I can either (sort of) dry run go fmt and spit out the formatting mistakes or use any other utility to do so?
The go fmt command runs the gofmt command. Use the gofmt command directly for more control.
# use -d flag to print difference between file at path and formatted file
gofmt -d path
# no flags prints the formatted file to stdout. This is the dry run.
gofmt path