No go files to analyze

[hazcod]

Version:

~/Downloads/iron-redis$ $(go env GOPATH)/bin/golangci-lint version
golangci-lint has version 1.21.0 built from 645e794 on 2019-10-15T18:15:04Z

PoC:

~/Downloads/iron-redis$ ls . healthcheck/
.:
Dockerfile    README.md     healthcheck   redis.compose redis.conf

healthcheck/:
go.mod         go.sum         healthcheck.go vendor

~/Downloads/iron-redis$ $(go env GOPATH)/bin/golangci-lint run ./...
ERRO Running error: context loading failed: package github.com/go-redis/redis: no go files to analyze

~/Downloads/iron-redis$ $(go env GOPATH)/bin/golangci-lint run healthcheck/...
ERRO Running error: context loading failed: package github.com/go-redis/redis: no go files to analyze

~/Downloads/iron-redis$ $(go env GOPATH)/bin/golangci-lint run healthcheck/healthcheck.go
ERRO Running error: context loading failed: package github.com/go-redis/redis: no go files to analyze

[hazcod]

This only happens when I do not have a go.mod in the root of my repository.
Creating a foo go.mod and having the rest in the subdirectory does not work.

[hazcod]

Workaround for my case is by running the linter in the subdirectory: reviewdog/action-golangci-lint#15

[fdcds]

Probably a duplicate of #825.

[kazhuravlev]

to fix error just

go get ./...
golangci-lint run

[jirfag]

Duplicate of #825