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  "github_readme_excerpt": "# errcheck\n\nerrcheck finds silently ignored errors in Go code.\n\n![errcheck](https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck/workflows/errcheck/badge.svg)\n\nFor all callables that are not in the excluded list, all returned errors must\nbe either assigned to a variable or explicitly discarded by being assigned to `_`.\n\nPlease note that errcheck does not do any further analysis on assigned errors.\n\nFor example, it will not complain about this:\n\n```go\nerr := foo()\n\n// First error is discarded\nerr = bar()\nif err != nil {\n    ...\n}\n```\n\nFor such analysis and more, please see [staticcheck](https://staticcheck.dev/).\n\n## Install\n\n    go install github.com/kisielk/errcheck@latest\n\nerrcheck requires Go 1.25 or newer.\n\n## Use\n\nFor basic usage, just give the package path of interest as the first argument:\n\n    errcheck github.com/kisielk/errcheck/testdata\n\nTo check all packages beneath the current directory:\n\n    errcheck ./...\n\nOr check all packages in your `$GOPATH` and `$GOROOT`:\n\n    errcheck all\n\nerrcheck also recognizes the following command-line options:\n\nThe `-tags` flag takes a space-separated list of build tags, just like `go\nbuild`. If you are using any custom build tags in your code base, you may need\nto specify the relevant tags here.\n\nThe `-asserts` flag enables checking for ignored type assertion results. It\ntakes no arguments.\n\nThe `-blank` flag enables checking for assignments of errors to the\nblank identifier. It takes no arguments.\n\nThe `-abspath` flag prints the absolute paths to files with unchecked errors.\n\nThe `-mod` flag sets the module download mode to use: `readonly` or `vendor`.\n\n### go/analysis\n\nThe package provides `Analyzer` instance that can be used with\n[go/analysis](https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis) API.\n\nCurrently supported flags are `blank`, `assert`, `exclude`, and `excludeonly`.\nJust as the API itself, the analyzer is experimental and may change in the\nfuture.\n\n## Excluding functions\n\nUse the `-exclude` flag to specify a path to a file co",
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