How do I enable additional formatters in v7?

[avamsi]

I simply used args: --enable=gofumpt,gosec,misspell,prealloc with v6 but looks like golangci-lint v2 doesn't like gofumpt in this list anymore. And IIUC, only way I can get around this is for me to create a config file and put gofumpt there. Or is there some other command line argument I'm missing?

[ldez]

Hello,

The formatters cannot be enabled or disabled as linter.

The formatters should be defined inside the formatters configuration.

[avamsi]

Any plans to expose this as args so to skip creating a config just to enable a formatter?

[ldez]

No, because it makes no sense to do that inside v2: a formatter is not a linter.

The formatters are related to the new command golangci-lint fmt.
They are "converted" as linter for convenience, but their main usage is related to this command.

https://ldez.github.io/blog/2025/03/23/golangci-lint-v2/

[hypnoglow]

In v1 it was straightforward to CI-check if the code is formatted, as it worked as any other linter.

In v2 the best way I found is to use 2 commands separately, golangci-lint run and then golangci-lint fmt --diff. Is this the way now?

[ldez]

The formatters must be defined inside the configuration file to be run by the command golangci-lint run.

https://golangci-lint.run/usage/formatters/