godot is a Go linter that helps keep source code comments consistent by checking whether comments end with a period when needed.
It’s designed for Go projects and can be used either as a standalone command-line tool or through GolangCI-Lint. The software also offers configurable checking scopes, exclusion rules, optional capitalization checks, and autofix modes for correcting issues automatically.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Can be installed as a standalone command-line linter or used through GolangCI-Lint.
- Supports configuration with a default
.godot.yamlfile or a custom config file. - Offers multiple checking scopes including declarations, toplevel, noinline, and all comments.
- Supports regular expression based exclusions for selected comment lines.
- Can check sentence-ending periods and optionally verify sentence capitalization.
- Provides autofix modes to print corrected output or overwrite the original files.
Website: github.com/tetafro/godot
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Developer: tetafro
License: MIT License
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