Meaning of "File is not `gci`-ed with --skip-generated -s standard,default (gci)"

Question

I get this error message:

main.go:24: File is not `gci`-ed with --skip-generated -s standard,default (gci)
import (

What does this mean?

Background: I am new to Go, and the linting was not set up by me. I confess that I don't know the actual linter which creates this warning.

Looks like you are using a tool called `gci` which is skipping that file with the given flags. This isn't part of the `go` toolchain or language. — JimB, Jan 19 '23 at 15:54
«I get this error message»—how do you get one? What linter do you run? It _looks_ like you're running `golangci-lint` (it aggregates multiple linters, and print the name of the linter which generated a warning in paretheses), is it correct? Please do not force those who's about to help to do psychic debugging. — kostix, Jan 19 '23 at 16:20
If it's `golangci-lint`, then [here are the GCI's docs](https://github.com/daixiang0/gci) and [this](https://golangci-lint.run/usage/configuration) explains how to tweaks settings of particular linters or exclude specific files from being linted by particular linters etc. — kostix, Jan 19 '23 at 16:21
@kostix thank you for your comments. I found a solution and posted it as answer below. — guettli, Jan 19 '23 at 16:40

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 27 '23 at 16:22

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Try

golangci-lint run --fix

and you can go from there!

answered Apr 27 '23 at 16:22

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This should be the accepted answer, fixed it for me – jupp0r Jun 22 '23 at 20:00

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 26 '23 at 14:28

gci is

a tool that controls golang package import order and makes it always deterministic.

When linting the code with golangci-lint, the changes required by the gci linter are not directly applied. One then has to manually apply them. For this get gci with

 go install github.com/daixiang0/gci@latest

scan it and directly write required changes with

gci write --skip-generated -s standard,default .

--skip-generated skips generated files
-s standard,default defines how import inputs are processed. standard are all official Golang provided imports, default are all other ones.

Meaning of "File is not `gci`-ed with --skip-generated -s standard,default (gci)"

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