errcheck

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the errcheck project linked in the issue and determine how it would be applied to this repository. Define which nil-pointer-related checks are in scope and how success will be verified; the issue currently names no files or tests, so completion criteria need clarification.

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Description

Recommend applying the linter/SAST tool errcheck, in order to mitigate more nil pointer dereference errors.

https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck

Dominant language
Shell
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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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