mgechev/revive

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🔥 ~6x faster, stricter, configurable, extensible, and beautiful drop-in replacement for golint

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Forks: 330
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 61
Avg merge: 1d 21h
Merged PRs (30d): 9

Dominant language: Go
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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61 open issues indexed

Prevent Primitive Type in name Open

rule proposal

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

mgechev/revive#1760 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 19, 2026
var-naming: initialismsAsWords option Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mgechev/revive#1736 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 19, 2026
Race condition in `unexported-return`: wrong package qualifier and flaky detection for generic functions Open

bug

mgechev/revive#1711 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 15, 2026
a rule to find redundant slice variable declarations Open

rule proposal

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

mgechev/revive#1704 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 8, 2026
a rule to replace append with slices.Concat Open

rule proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

mgechev/revive#1701 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 31, 2026
empty-switch-cases: report empty switch cases Open

rule proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mgechev/revive#1695 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2026
redundant-build-tag: report redundant //go:build go1.N-1 directives Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mgechev/revive#1689 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 16, 2026
var-naming: ignore exported types/vars Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1687 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 16, 2026
`redudant-import-alias` false positive Open

false positive

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1662 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Enhance `unused_param` with strict enforcement for unexported functions Open

rule proposal

mgechev/revive#1657 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 24, 2026
deep-exit: improve error message for flag.Parse Open

enhancement

mgechev/revive#1612 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 19, 2025
missing bodycloses detection Open

feature request rule proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mgechev/revive#1610 · Opened Dec 18, 2025
`redundant-test-main-exit` assumes that all `os.Exit` calls are based on the return from `m.Run` Open

false positive

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

mgechev/revive#1552 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2025
enforce-switch-style: don't insist on `default:` when folowed by `return` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mgechev/revive#1541 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 9, 2025
detect unused `//revive:disable` comments Open

enhancement low priority v2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1534 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 30, 2025
Release strategy Open

docs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mgechev/revive#1490 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 25, 2025
Add GitHub Action workflow for testing new rules across popular repositories Open

tests

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1463 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 6, 2025
v2: split rules Open

breaking change v2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mgechev/revive#1461 · Opened Aug 3, 2025
unexported-return: unexported interfaces should not be allowed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mgechev/revive#1457 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 2, 2025
switch style enforcement: additional ideas Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mgechev/revive#1443 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 26, 2025
GitHub Copilot code review instructions Open

tests

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1439 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 26, 2025
enforce-switch-style: an option to disable the rule for `switch` with only expression cases Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mgechev/revive#1434 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 22, 2025
Add support of relative line numbers to `//MATCH` Open

low priority tests

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mgechev/revive#1430 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2025
datarace: improve detection to all ast.FuncLit and not only ast.GoStmt Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mgechev/revive#1411 · Opened Jun 27, 2025
Rule to enforce ordering exported and unexported symbols Open

rule proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1395 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 3, 2025
Rule to detect dumb print statements Open

rule proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

mgechev/revive#1392 · 3 comments · Opened May 29, 2025
Roadmap: Revive v2 major release Open

enhancement v2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

mgechev/revive#1391 · 11 comments · Opened May 29, 2025
Replace existing tests that target unexported functions with tests for exported Open

good first issue help wanted low priority

mgechev/revive#1362 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 20, 2025
Refactor cli.RunRevive to avoid os.Exit Open

breaking change v2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mgechev/revive#1333 · Opened May 1, 2025
revive-action GHA status Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mgechev/revive#1332 · Opened May 1, 2025
var-naming: improve package naming reporting Open

enhancement low priority

mgechev/revive#1317 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 16, 2025
var-naming: Unicode letter are not allowed Open

question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1315 · 10 comments · Opened Apr 11, 2025
var-naming: improve underscore detection with _test package Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

mgechev/revive#1314 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 11, 2025
Consider refactor calls to file.Pkg.TypeCheck Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

mgechev/revive#1310 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 10, 2025
Consider replacing hashicorp go-version by std one Open

breaking change

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mgechev/revive#1302 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2025
defer: consider reporting exit like in deep-exit Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1300 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 7, 2025
Consistent error messages Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mgechev/revive#1284 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 30, 2025
Typed rules don't work as expected Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1277 · 13 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Mar 19, 2025
bool-literal-in-expr detects bool literal comparisons for any Open

false positive no decision

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mgechev/revive#1275 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 17, 2025
Rationalize failure categories Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mgechev/revive#1254 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 2, 2025
exported: report differently a method that is now exported Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1235 · 12 comments · Opened Feb 12, 2025
exported: handle blank line case differently Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1234 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 12, 2025
exported: currently only support package prefix detection, package suffix could be also useful Open

enhancement

mgechev/revive#1226 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 8, 2025
redundant-build-tag: detect duplicated build constraint Open

rule proposal

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mgechev/revive#1146 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 26, 2024
modifies-value-receiver: miss modification by setting something in a sub structure Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1117 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 12, 2024
Rule for redundant error declarations Open

rule proposal

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mgechev/revive#1098 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 7, 2024
Enable -set_exit_status by default Open

breaking change

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1093 · Opened Oct 31, 2024
Exclude files base on patterns Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1011 · Opened Jul 12, 2024
Support Suggested Fixes (--fix) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mgechev/revive#1000 · 2 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jun 11, 2024
Add a comment length checking in `rule.exported` Open

good first issue rule proposal

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

mgechev/revive#934 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 7, 2023

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