Buf(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so welcome to Buf(1), bestie — this is the manual page for buf-lint, and she is here to run linting on Protobuf files. slay. 💅✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

buf lint  [flags]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the first argument is the source, module, or Image to lint, and it absolutely has to be one of the format list [binpb,dir,git,json,mod,protofile,tar,txtpb,yaml,zip]. If you don’t give an argument, it defaults to ".". periodt. 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --config="" — The buf.yaml file or data to use for configuration. 💖
• --disable-symlinks[=false] — Do not follow symlinks when reading sources or configuration from the local filesystem. By default, symlinks are followed in this CLI, but never followed on the Buf Schema Registry. no cap. 🧚
• --error-format="text" — The format for build errors or check violations printed to stdout. Must be one of [text,json,msvs,junit,github-actions,gitlab-code-quality,config-ignore-yaml]. 🔥
• --exclude-path=[] — Exclude specific files or directories, e.g. "proto/a/a.proto", "proto/a". If specified multiple times, the union is taken. 💀
• -h, --help[=false] — help for lint. 🎀
• --path=[] — Limit to specific files or directories, e.g. "proto/a/a.proto", "proto/a". If specified multiple times, the union is taken. 🌈

💜 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 💜

• --debug[=false] — Turn on debug logging (env BUF_DEBUG). 🙈
• --log-format="color" — The log format text,color,json ⟨env BUF_LOG_FORMAT⟩. 🌸
• --timeout=0s — The duration until timing out, setting it to 0 means no timeout (env BUF_TIMEOUT). ⭐

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• buf(1) — go check out the main character. 👑

📜 HISTORY 📜

2026-10-22 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra. 💀 no thoughts, just generation energy.

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kisses, bestie — Buf(1) out, auto generated by spf13/cobra on 2026-10-22. 💖🫶💅