diff --git a/hack/verify-golint.sh b/hack/verify-golint.sh
index 0829f18efdc..f70f6c85f37 100755
--- a/hack/verify-golint.sh
+++ b/hack/verify-golint.sh
@@ -46,14 +46,14 @@ array_contains () {
 # Check that the file is in alphabetical order
 failure_file="${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/.golint_failures"
 if ! diff -u "${failure_file}" <(LC_ALL=C sort "${failure_file}"); then
-	{
-		echo
-		echo "hack/.golint_failures is not in alphabetical order. Please sort it:"
-		echo
-		echo "  LC_ALL=C sort -o hack/.golint_failures hack/.golint_failures"
-		echo
-	} >&2
-	false
+  {
+    echo
+    echo "hack/.golint_failures is not in alphabetical order. Please sort it:"
+    echo
+    echo "  LC_ALL=C sort -o hack/.golint_failures hack/.golint_failures"
+    echo
+  } >&2
+  false
 fi
 
 export IFS=$'\n'
@@ -61,73 +61,73 @@ export IFS=$'\n'
 # as the prefix, however if we run it outside it returns the full path of the file
 # with a leading underscore. We'll need to support both scenarios for all_packages.
 all_packages=(
-	$(go list -e ./... | egrep -v "/(third_party|vendor|staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/pkg|generated|clientset_generated)" | sed -e 's|^k8s.io/kubernetes/||' -e "s|^_${KUBE_ROOT}/\?||")
+  $(go list -e ./... | egrep -v "/(third_party|vendor|staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/pkg|generated|clientset_generated)" | sed -e 's|^k8s.io/kubernetes/||' -e "s|^_${KUBE_ROOT}/\?||")
 )
 failing_packages=(
-	$(cat $failure_file)
+  $(cat $failure_file)
 )
 unset IFS
 errors=()
 not_failing=()
 for p in "${all_packages[@]}"; do
-	# Run golint on package/*.go file explicitly to validate all go files
-	# and not just the ones for the current platform.
-	# Packages with a corresponding foo_test package will make golint fail
-	# with a useless error. Just ignore that, see golang/lint#68.
-	failedLint=$(golint "$p"/*.go 2>/dev/null)
-	array_contains "$p" "${failing_packages[@]}" && in_failing=$? || in_failing=$?
-	if [[ -n "${failedLint}" ]] && [[ "${in_failing}" -ne "0" ]]; then
-		errors+=( "${failedLint}" )
-	fi
-	if [[ -z "${failedLint}" ]] && [[ "${in_failing}" -eq "0" ]]; then
-		not_failing+=( $p )
-	fi
+  # Run golint on package/*.go file explicitly to validate all go files
+  # and not just the ones for the current platform.
+  # Packages with a corresponding foo_test package will make golint fail
+  # with a useless error. Just ignore that, see golang/lint#68.
+  failedLint=$(golint "$p"/*.go 2>/dev/null)
+  array_contains "$p" "${failing_packages[@]}" && in_failing=$? || in_failing=$?
+  if [[ -n "${failedLint}" ]] && [[ "${in_failing}" -ne "0" ]]; then
+    errors+=( "${failedLint}" )
+  fi
+  if [[ -z "${failedLint}" ]] && [[ "${in_failing}" -eq "0" ]]; then
+    not_failing+=( $p )
+  fi
 done
 
 # Check that all failing_packages actually still exist
 gone=()
 for p in "${failing_packages[@]}"; do
-	array_contains "$p" "${all_packages[@]}" || gone+=( "$p" )
+  array_contains "$p" "${all_packages[@]}" || gone+=( "$p" )
 done
 
 # Check to be sure all the packages that should pass lint are.
 if [ ${#errors[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
-	echo 'Congratulations!  All Go source files have been linted.'
+  echo 'Congratulations!  All Go source files have been linted.'
 else
-	{
-		echo "Errors from golint:"
-		for err in "${errors[@]}"; do
-			echo "$err"
-		done
-		echo
-		echo 'Please review the above warnings. You can test via "golint" and commit the result.'
-		echo 'If the above warnings do not make sense, you can exempt this package from golint'
-		echo 'checking by adding it to hack/.golint_failures (if your reviewer is okay with it).'
-		echo
-	} >&2
-	false
+  {
+    echo "Errors from golint:"
+    for err in "${errors[@]}"; do
+      echo "$err"
+    done
+    echo
+    echo 'Please review the above warnings. You can test via "golint" and commit the result.'
+    echo 'If the above warnings do not make sense, you can exempt this package from golint'
+    echo 'checking by adding it to hack/.golint_failures (if your reviewer is okay with it).'
+    echo
+  } >&2
+  false
 fi
 
 if [[ ${#not_failing[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
-	{
-		echo "Some packages in hack/.golint_failures are passing golint. Please remove them."
-		echo
-		for p in "${not_failing[@]}"; do
-			echo "  $p"
-		done
-		echo
-	} >&2
-	false
+  {
+    echo "Some packages in hack/.golint_failures are passing golint. Please remove them."
+    echo
+    for p in "${not_failing[@]}"; do
+      echo "  $p"
+    done
+    echo
+  } >&2
+  false
 fi
 
 if [[ ${#gone[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
-	{
-		echo "Some packages in hack/.golint_failures do not exist anymore. Please remove them."
-		echo
-		for p in "${gone[@]}"; do
-			echo "  $p"
-		done
-		echo
-	} >&2
-	false
+  {
+    echo "Some packages in hack/.golint_failures do not exist anymore. Please remove them."
+    echo
+    for p in "${gone[@]}"; do
+      echo "  $p"
+    done
+    echo
+  } >&2
+  false
 fi