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+# This files contains all configuration options for analysis running.
+# More details please refer to: https://golangci-lint.run/usage/configuration/
+
+run:
+  # timeout for analysis, e.g. 30s, 5m, default is 1m
+  timeout: 10m
+
+  # which dirs to skip: issues from them won't be reported;
+  # can use regexp here: generated.*, regexp is applied on full path;
+  # default value is empty list, but default dirs are skipped independently
+  # from this option's value (see skip-dirs-use-default).
+  # "/" will be replaced by current OS file path separator to properly work
+  # on Windows.
+  skip-dirs:
+  - hack/tools/preferredimports # This code is directly lifted from the Kubernetes codebase, skip checking
+  - (^|/)vendor($|/)
+  - (^|/)third_party($|/)
+
+  # default is true. Enables skipping of directories:
+  #   vendor$, third_party$, testdata$, examples$, Godeps$, builtin$
+  skip-dirs-use-default: false
+
+  # One of 'readonly' and 'vendor'.
+  #  - readonly: the go command is disallowed from the implicit automatic updating of go.mod described above.
+  #              Instead, it fails when any changes to go.mod are needed. This setting is most useful to check
+  #              that go.mod does not need updates, such as in a continuous integration and testing system.
+  #  - vendor: the go command assumes that the vendor directory holds the correct copies of dependencies and ignores
+  #            the dependency descriptions in go.mod.
+  modules-download-mode: readonly
+linters:
+  enable:
+  # linters maintained by golang.org
+  - gofmt
+  - goimports
+  - govet
+  # linters default enabled by golangci-lint .
+  - errcheck
+  - gosimple
+  - ineffassign
+  - staticcheck
+  - typecheck
+  - unused
+  # other linters supported by golangci-lint.
+  - gci
+  - gocyclo
+  - gosec
+  - misspell
+  - whitespace
+  - revive
+
+linters-settings:
+  goimports:
+    local-prefixes: cnp.io/clusterlink
+  gocyclo:
+    # minimal cyclomatic complexity to report
+    min-complexity: 15
+  gci:
+    sections:
+      - Standard
+      - Default
+      - Prefix(cnp.io/clusterlink)
+
+issues:
+  # The list of ids of default excludes to include or disable. By default it's empty.
+  include:
+  # disable excluding of issues about comments from revive
+  # see https://golangci-lint.run/usage/configuration/#command-line-options for more info
+  - EXC0012
+  - EXC0013
+  - EXC0014