uber-go/gopatch

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gopatch is a command-line tool for matching and transforming Go source code using patch files that understand Go syntax. It operates like the Unix patch tool but performs AST-aware refactoring and restyling rather than plain text substitution.

Use cases

• automate refactoring across a large Go codebase
• replace errors.New(fmt.Sprintf(...)) with fmt.Errorf everywhere
• write custom lint autofixes as patch files
• enforce code style changes in Go projects
• apply syntax-aware bulk code transformations
• codify recurring code migration patterns

When to choose

• you need to make repetitive structural changes across many Go files
• you want to encode team style fixes as reusable patch files
• text-based sed/patch is too fragile because you need Go syntax awareness

When to avoid

• you work in languages other than Go
• you need one-off simple text substitutions that sed handles fine
• you need full IDE-integrated interactive refactoring

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

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