From b70fa899cb02cc1b44ca5b757004da7f0c2c577f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastiaan van Stijn <thaJeztah@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:34:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] golangci-lint: enable gci formatter (#4828)

This allows linting the imports to be grouped correctly, and provides
an auto-fix (`golangci-lint run --fix`).

Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
---
 .golangci.yaml | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.golangci.yaml b/.golangci.yaml
index 9093acb66..422a7448a 100644
--- a/.golangci.yaml
+++ b/.golangci.yaml
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ linters:
 #    - godot
 #    - godox
 #    - goerr113
-#    - goimports   # we're using gosimports now instead to account for extra whitespaces (see https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20818)
 #    - golint      # deprecated
 #    - gomnd       # this is too aggressive
 #    - interfacer  # this is a good idea, but is no longer supported and is prone to false positives
@@ -96,11 +95,18 @@ issues:
 
 formatters:
   enable:
+    - gci
     - gofmt
-    - goimports
   exclusions:
     generated: lax
     paths:
       - third_party$
       - builtin$
       - examples$
+  settings:
+    gci:
+      # See https://golangci-lint.run/docs/formatters/configuration/#gci
+      sections:
+        - standard # Standard section: captures all standard packages.
+        - default  # Default section: contains all imports that could not be matched to another section type.
+        - prefix(github.com/anchore)