Hi everyone,

I've been trying to contribute to and open source project and noticed that the coveralls coverage percent differs from what I get from go tool cover. The difference is relatively small but I thought you still might want to know about it. I think it's entirely caused by goveralls counting braces but go cover not counting them (go cover approach explained here).

Possible solutions (I'd be happy to contribute toward either)

1. Don't count the braces (which as a downside will make the coveralls.io report looks weird because the first line of functions wouldn't be marked as covered - the same thing of course happens when you use go's html report go tool cover -html=profile.cov.

2. Provide a way to output the coverage from goveralls without submitting the report to coveralls.io. Basically add a flag so I can do something like goveralls --report and get something similar to go tool cover -func=profile.cov. This would actually be pretty useful because goveralls correctly outputs coverage across multiple packages (by merging the coverage reports) which go cover doesn't - so this could be used for projects not even using coveralls.io.

I'd be happy to submit a PR if you want to go in either direction above.

Here's a contrived example:
(based on this)

//config.go
package config

type Config struct {
	data map[string]map[string]string
}

func NewConfig() () {
	_ = &Config{
		data: make(map[string]map[string]string),
	}
}

func (c *Config) parse(fname string) (err error) {
	return nil
}

//config_test.go
package config

import (
	"testing"
)

func TestGet(t *testing.T) {
	NewConfig()
}

Then I run the test like this
go test -covermode=count -coverprofile=profile.cov
And check my coverage like this
go tool cover -func=profile.cov
Which give 50%.

For coveralls I get 62.5%. Here's why:

cat profile.cov 
mode: count
github.com/casbin/casbin/config/config.go:8.21,12.2 1 1
github.com/casbin/casbin/config/config.go:14.50,16.2 1 0

Go cover I believe just sees (2) blocks:
block 1: 1/1 lines covered
block 2: 0/1 lines covered
Total = 1/2 = 50%

goveralls gives this output
(https://github.com/mattn/goveralls/blob/master/gocover.go#L102)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 1
8 1
9 1
10 1
11 1
12
13 0
14 0
15 0

Which means it counts 8 lines (instead of 2 because 6 are braces) and 3 lines without coverage (instead of 1) giving the 5/8 and 62.5%.

Also to be fair - your coverage does match the HTML report (which shows 5/8 lines covered)
go tool cover -html=profile.cov