golangci/golangci-lint · error

a rule cannot be enabled and disabled at the same time: '%s'

Error message

a rule cannot be enabled and disabled at the same time: '%s'

What it means

godoclint's settings check rejects rules that appear in both settings.Enable and settings.Disable (outside the special enable/disable/default modes). Since configuration is validated at linter construction (New), golangci-lint fails before analysis.

Source

Thrown at pkg/golinters/godoclint/godoclint.go:96

		WithLoadMode(goanalysis.LoadModeSyntax)
}

func checkSettings(settings *config.GodoclintSettings) error {
	switch deref(settings.Default) {
	case string(model.DefaultSetAll):
		if len(settings.Enable) > 0 {
			return errors.New("cannot use 'enable' with 'default=all'")
		}

	case string(model.DefaultSetNone):
		if len(settings.Disable) > 0 {
			return errors.New("cannot use 'disable' with 'default=none'")
		}

	default:
		for _, rule := range settings.Enable {
			if slices.Contains(settings.Disable, rule) {
				return fmt.Errorf("a rule cannot be enabled and disabled at the same time: '%s'", rule)
			}
		}

		for _, rule := range settings.Disable {
			if slices.Contains(settings.Enable, rule) {
				return fmt.Errorf("a rule cannot be enabled and disabled at the same time: '%s'", rule)
			}
		}
	}

	return nil
}

func deref[T any](v *T) T {
	if v == nil {
		var zero T
		return zero
	}

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Solutions

1. Remove the rule from one of the two lists (enable or disable) per your intent
2. If you intended to override a base config, use godoclint's mode options (e.g. 'disable' or 'default=none') consistently instead of mixing both lists
3. Grep your merged .golangci.yml for the rule ID to see both occurrences

Example fix

// before (.golangci.yml)
settings:
  godoclint:
    enable: [wrl]
    disable: [wrl]
// after
settings:
  godoclint:
    enable: [wrl]

const { enable = [], disable = [] } = cfg.settings.godoclint
const clash = enable.filter(r => disable.includes(r))
if (clash.length) throw new Error(`godoclint rule(s) both enabled and disabled: ${clash.join(', ')}`)

const noRuleConflict = (s) => !(s.enable ?? []).some(r => (s.disable ?? []).includes(r))

When it happens

Trigger: In the godoclint settings block, the same rule ID is present in both 'enable' and 'disable' lists and the mode is not 'enable-only'/'disable-only' with default=none; checkSettings's first loop finds Disable containing the enabled rule.

Common situations: Merging a shared config that enables rules with a project config disabling them, adding a rule to enable while forgetting it's already in disable, copy-paste between the two lists.

Related errors

• can't combine option --config and --no-config
• can't get enabled formatters: %w
• failed to set analyzer setting %q with value %q: %w
• settings key %q must be valid analyzer name, valid analyzers
• failed to configure analyzer %s: %w

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