not able to exclude a directory in the CI/CD run

[officialasishkumar]

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These are my files

im not able to ignore the v1 directory and because of that my pipeline is failing

.golangci.yml

version: "2"

run:
  timeout: 7m

linters:
  default: all
  exclusions:
    paths:
      - pkg/mongo/v1

golangci-lint.yml

name: golangci-lint

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  pull_request:

permissions:
  contents: read
  # Optional: allow read access to pull request. Use with `only-new-issues` option.
  pull-requests: read

# Cancel the in-progress workflow when PR is refreshed.
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.head_ref || github.sha }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

jobs:
  golangci:
    name: lint
    runs-on: selfhosted-linux-amd64
    env:
      CGO_ENABLED: "1"
    permissions:
      contents: read
      packages: write
      id-token: write

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set up Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
        with:
          go-version: 1.25.0
          cache: false

      - name: Installing build Essentials and gcc
        run: |
          sudo apt -y update
          sudo apt -y install build-essential gcc libc-dev  \
            pkg-config \
            libgl1-mesa-dev          \
            libxi-dev libxcursor-dev \
            libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev \
            libxxf86vm-dev libx11-dev libx11-xcb-dev

      - name: golangci-lint
        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v7
        with:
          skip-cache: true
          working-directory: .
          version: latest

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