在CI文件中进行gofmt项目是否有意义

Question

I came across a project which has this line in its gitlab-ci.yml
go fmt $(go list ./... | grep -v /vendor/) which is followed by a go test and then a go build.
The problem is by this point the code is already committed so there is no point in doing a gofmt or am i missing something here.

Answer 1

Depends on what the goal is. It may be totally sane to do if a later linter checks whether code is in the proper gofmt format and

• they know some forget that and they want to ignore that case for a better experience.
• some generated code is not formatted but also not checked in and so must be gofmt'ed to avoid linter complaints.

Or it just copied over from somewhere else and no one cared to remove it.