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by wtbob 4757 days ago
> At the risk of some controversy, I think that if Go's core developers are serious about encouraging good software engineering, they should drop "go get" (presumably in Go 2). It seems to me that subrepositories / submodules at the version control level, with support for pinning, are the best way to manage dependencies.

That's how 'go get' works.
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TylerE 4757 days ago
No it doesn't, you can't request or pin a specific version. You just get whatever is in HEAD when you pull.
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wtbob 4757 days ago
> No it doesn't, you can't request or pin a specific version. You just get whatever is in HEAD when you pull.

You get the dependency at a version control level, at a known-good version (because you pulled from the master branch) at the time you pulled, and after that it's up to you to update it.

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