Mastering Go - Second Edition

The go mod vendor command

There are times when you need to store all your dependencies in the same place and keep them close to the files of your project. In these situations, the go mod vendor command can help you to do exactly this:

$ cd useTwoVersions
$ go mod init useV1V2
go: creating new go.mod: module useV1V2
$ go mod vendor
$ ls -l
total 24
-rw-------  1 mtsouk  staff   114B Mar  2 22:43 go.mod
-rw-------  1 mtsouk  staff   356B Mar  2 22:43 go.sum
-rw-r--r--@ 1 mtsouk  staff   143B Mar  2 19:36 useTwo.go
drwxr-xr-x  4 mtsouk  staff   128B Mar  2 22:43 vendor
$ ls -l vendor/github.com/mactsouk/myModule
total 24
-rw-r--r--  1 mtsouk  staff    28B Mar  2 22:43 README.md
-rw-r--r--  1 mtsouk  staff    45B Mar  2 22:43 go.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 mtsouk staff 86B Mar 2 22:43 ...