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filenames, directories, or packages named by its import path. Unimport also supports the `...` wildcard.\n\n    unimport files/directories/packages\n\nCurrently, no flag are supported. A `-w` flag may be added in the future to automatically remove aliases where possible (Similar to [gofmt's -w flag](https://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/)).\n\n## Purpose\n\nAs noted in Go's [Code Review comments](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#imports):\n\n\u003e Avoid renaming imports except to avoid a name collision; good package names should not require renaming.\n\u003e In the event of collision, prefer to rename the most local or project-specific import.\n\nThis tool will check if any import aliases are truly needed (by ensuring there is a name collision that would exist without the import alias). This tool _will_ ignore import paths containing dashes and dots, as these are generally useful aliases while importing a specific revision. For example, in [gometalinter](https://github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter), there are some imports like `kingpin \"gopkg.in/alecthomas/kingpin.v3-unstable\"`. This is a reasonable import alias and will not be flagged.\n\n## Example\n\nRunning `unimports` on the [Go source](https://github.com/golang/go):\n\n```\n$ unimport $GOROOT/src/...\ncmd/go/pkg.go:18 unnecessary import alias pathpkg\ngo/build/build.go:19 unnecessary import alias pathpkg\ngo/internal/gcimporter/gcimporter.go:23 unnecessary import alias exact\nos/pipe_test.go:14 unnecessary import alias osexec\nos/os_windows_test.go:10 unnecessary import alias osexec\n```\n\nBelow are some of the arguably unneeded import aliases it found:\n\n\n```Go\n\n// go/internal/gcimporter/gcimporter.go\nimport (                                                                                       \n    \"bufio\"                                                                                    \n    \"errors\"                                                                                   \n    \"fmt\"                                                                                      \n    \"go/build\"                                                                                 \n    \"go/token\"                                                                                 \n    \"io\"                                                                                       \n    \"io/ioutil\"                                                                                \n    \"os\"                                                                                       \n    \"path/filepath\"                                                                            \n    \"sort\"                                                                                     \n    \"strconv\"                                                                                  \n    \"strings\"                                                                                  \n    \"text/scanner\"                                                                             \n                                                                                               \n    exact \"go/constant\"                                                                        \n    \"go/types\"                                                                                 \n)\n\n\n// os/pipe_test.go.go\nimport (                                                                                       \n    \"fmt\"                                                                                      \n    \"internal/testenv\"                                                                         \n    \"os\"                                                                                       \n    osexec \"os/exec\"                                                                           \n    \"os/signal\"                                                                                \n    \"syscall\"                                                                                  \n    \"testing\"                                                                                  \n)\n```\n\n\n## TODO\n\n- Unit tests\n- Flagging of packages that contain an uppercase letter or underscore\n- -w flag to write changes to file where/if possible\n- Globbing support (e.g. unimport *.go)\n\n\n## Contributing\n\nPull requests welcome!\n\n- [nakedret](https://github.com/alexkohler/nakedret) - Finds naked returns.\n- [prealloc](https://github.com/alexkohler/prealloc) - Finds slice declarations that could potentially be preallocated.\n","funding_links":[],"categories":["Repositories"],"sub_categories":[],"project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Falexkohler%2Funimport","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Falexkohler%2Funimport","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Falexkohler%2Funimport/lists"}