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Go Design Patterns
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Go Design Patterns

by Mario Castro Contreras
February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
402 pages
8h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Go get tool

Go get is a tool to get third party projects from CVS repositories. Instead of using the git clone command, you can use Go get to receive a series of added benefits. Let's write an example using CoreOS's ETCD project which is a famous distributed key-value store.

CoreOS's ETCD is hosted on GitHub at  https://github.com/coreos/etcd.git. To download this project source code using the Go get tool, we must type in the Terminal it's resulting import path that it will have in our GOPATH:

$ go get github.com/coreos/etcd

Note that we have just typed the most relevant information so that Go get figures out the rest. You'll get some output, depending on the state of the project, but after, while, it will disappear. But what did happen?

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ISBN: 9781786466204