tracemod

tracemod is a self-contained binary which lets you trace dependencies from Go projects visually.

💻 Usage

Generate and display an SVG rendering of all the direct and transitive dependencies matching github.com/spf13/cobra.

tracemod github.com/spf13/cobra

✨ Features

♾️ Limit the number of dependency paths

Use the -m/--max-traces option to limit the maximum number of dependency paths to generate. This is useful when looking for a dependency included in many places, such as Protobuf.

🗺️ Choose the graph direction

By default, the direction of the graph is automatically computed to better represent the dependency tree. However, it is possible to force the rendering by using the -d/--direction option to select among the different display styles:

• TB for ⬇️ top-to-bottom
• BT for ⬆️ bottom-to-top
• LR for ➡️ left-to-right
• RL for ⬅️ right-to-left

💎 Look for fixed strings

The search query is by default interpreted as a regular expression. For convenience, this can be changed by using the -F/--fixed-strings option flag to instead look for exact matches.

⏱️ Specify a timeout

When the dependency tree is too big, a timeout can be specified to limit the execution time of the program, using the -t/--timeout option. Whenever the timeout is hit, the resulting dependency graph is still displayed, but keep in mind that it will only be partial.