Action output not helpful

[andig]

Welcome

• Yes, I understand that the GitHub action repository is not the repository of golangci-lint itself.
• Yes, I've searched similar issues on GitHub and didn't find any.
• Yes, I've included all information below (version, config, etc).

Description of the problem

Lint action output is not helpful in that

• issues are not visible at first sight when looking into the action log and
• issues apparently sometimes omit filenames

Version of golangci-lint

Not sure

Version of the GitHub Action

golangci/golangci-lint-action@v3

Workflow file

https://github.com/evcc-io/evcc/blob/0631f600926faa0fc3566c3ac9ff2c6c8fa8c8ed/.github/workflows/default.yml#L98-L102

https://github.com/evcc-io/evcc/blob/0631f600926faa0fc3566c3ac9ff2c6c8fa8c8ed/.golangci.yml

Go version

1.22.0

Code example or link to a public repository

https://github.com/evcc-io/evcc/actions/runs/7830801405/job/21365710661?pr=11007

[gaby]

I'm having the same problem, there's no output. Enabling annotation makes 0 difference.

[ldez]

Since v3.6.0 of the action, you can now provide extra args to add extra output format.

Example:

    - name: Golangci Lint
      uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v4
      with:
        version: v1.56.2
        args: --out-format=colored-line-number

https://golangci-lint.run/usage/configuration/#output-configuration

Related to #769

Duplicate of #618, #119

[andig]

@ldez thank you. It would still be nice to see the linter messages during the run phase right in the log without needing to expand the "run golangci-lint" section.

[ldez]

The problem will be fixed with golangci-lint v1.58: the file information (path, position) will be displayed.

golangci/golangci-lint#4685

[ldez]

I added a new option annotations, which may be useful to some of you.

I added this option for several reasons:

• The number of annotations is limited.
• Some people don't want to use annotations and just want the classic colored-line-number format.

If you set annotations to false, the output format(s) will follow the golangci-lint configuration file (or CLI flags from args) and use the same default as golangci-lint (i.e. colored-line-number).

https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint-action?tab=readme-ov-file#annotations