Update golangci-lint and enable most go-vet checks (#314)

* Update golangci-lint config for 1.59

* Apply fieldalignment fixes for struct byte sizes

* Revert "Apply fieldalignment fixes for struct byte sizes"

This reverts commit 6b1fabb.

* Disable fieldalignment in govet

* Fix golangci-lint workflow

* Fix go-version config in setup go action

.github/workflows/gochecks.yml

@@ -5,38 +5,30 @@ on:
     branches:
       - master
   pull_request:
-    branches:
-      - master
-
 jobs:
-  Go-Lint:
+  Golangci-lint:
+    name: Check golangci-lint
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Setup Go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
-          go-version: '1.19'
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          go version
-          go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/[email protected]
-
+          go-version: "1.22"
       - name: Run golangci-lint
-        run: |
-          golangci-lint run ./...
+        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v6
+        with:
+          version: "latest"
+          args: "./..."
 
   Go-Fmt:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Setup Go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
-          go-version: '1.19'
+          go-version: '1.22'
 
       - name: Run fmt
         run: |

.golangci.yaml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ linters-settings:
     min-complexity: 15
   goimports:
     local-prefixes: github.com/golangci/golangci-lint
-  gomnd:
+  mnd:
     # don't include the "operation" and "assign"
     checks:
       - argument
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ linters-settings:
       - strings.SplitN
 
   govet:
-    check-shadowing: true
+    enable-all: true
+    disable:
+      - fieldalignment # a lot of manual overhead for reduced readability and adding a linter "gotcha"
     settings:
       printf:
         funcs:
@@ -74,14 +76,14 @@ linters:
     - gocyclo
     - gofmt
     - goimports
-    - gomnd
     - goprintffuncname
     - gosec
     - gosimple
     - govet
     - ineffassign
     - lll
     - misspell
+    - mnd
     - nakedret
     - noctx
     - nolintlint
@@ -132,6 +134,5 @@ issues:
         - lll
         - goconst
         - dogsled
-
 run:
   timeout: 5m