I think you should be able to do `go get ./... dep1@branchA dep2@branchB ...` On Friday, November 6, 2020 at 3:20:16 PM UTC+1 Jim Minter wrote:
> Hi, > > Using Go 1.14, I'm working on a parent codebase which, in its go.mod > file, has a number of replace statements referencing legacy child > codebases which have not yet converted to Go modules. > > At this stage the legacy child codebases handle versioning by branch, > rather than using semantic versioning, so my go.mod file has a number of > statements like these: > > > replace github.com/foo/bar => github.com/foo/bar > v0.0.0-2020xxxxxxxxxx-hhhhhhhhhhhh // should track branch baz > > replace github.com/foo/bar1 => github.com/foo/bar1 > v0.0.0-2020yyyyyyyyyy-iiiiiiiiiiii // should track branch baz > > My goal is to be confident that if I update dependencies in the parent > codebase (go get -u ./...), I'll be pulling in HEAD on the relevant > branch of all the legacy child dependencies. > > My expectation is that this is a transitional use case because > eventually the child codebases will migrate to Go modules, but until > then, it's important to me to know I will pull in critical fixes from > the child dependencies if they happen. > > The difficulty I've got is ensuring that the replace stanzas are valid > and up-to-date. I'm not finding a great way to do this with the Go > module tooling and I wonder if I'm missing anything. Here are the > feasible ugly alternatives I've found so far: > > 1. Child by child, abuse the fact that `go mod tidy` rightly or wrongly > seems to tolerate a single legacy branch reference in the file at a time > and rewrites it to the v0.0.0-2020xxxxxxxxxx-hhhhhhhhhhhh format: > > > go mod edit -replace github.com/foo/bar=github.com/foo/bar@baz > > go mod tidy > > go mod edit -replace github.com/foo/bar1=github.com/foo/bar1@baz > > go mod tidy > > ...etc... > > go get -u ./... > > 2. A script to be run manually (or via go generate? yikes!) before > running go get -u ./..., containing abominations like this: > > > go mod edit -replace github.com/foo/bar=$(go list -mod=mod -m > github.com/foo/bar@baz | sed -e 's/ /@/') > > go mod edit -replace github.com/foo/bar1=$(go list -mod=mod -m > github.com/foo/bar1@baz | sed -e 's/ /@/') > > ...etc... > > go get -u ./... > > 3. Alternative abominations like this: > > > go mod edit -replace github.com/foo/bar=github.com/foo/bar $(curl -s > https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/foo/bar/@v/baz.info | jq -r .Version) > > go mod edit -replace github.com/foo/bar1=github.com/foo/bar1 $(curl -s > https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/foo/bar1/@v/baz.info | jq -r .Version) > > ...etc... > > go get -u ./... > > I'm wondering: is there a better way? Should there be? > > Many thanks! > > Jim Minter > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/147a99cd-4c81-45e6-903a-a9813e891037n%40googlegroups.com.
