gdl

gdl

A tool for listing Go dependencies. This utility is a light wrapper around the 'go list' command, intended to provide easy access to the dependencies of a project. The utility is vendor aware meaning it will correctly find and interpret any dependencies that you may have vendored, independent of the vendoring method.

Examples

List dependencies of the current package.

gdl

List dependencies of the current package and all sub packages, (including any vendored packages).

gdl ./...

Using this project as an example:

$ gdl ./... # from within $GOPATH/src/github.com/nathanielc/gdl
ImportPath                 Vendored  Root                   VCS  Repo                               Error
github.com/pkg/errors      yes       github.com/pkg/errors  Git  https://github.com/pkg/errors
golang.org/x/tools/go/vcs  no        golang.org/x/tools     Git  https://go.googlesource.com/tools

List dependencies of the local sub package ./cmd/foo package.

gdl ./cmd/foo

List dependencies of the current package and all sub packages skipping any locally vendored packages.

gdl -no-vendored ./...

List dependencies and test dependencies of the current package and all sub packages.

gdl -test ./...

List only the first dependency per VCS repo.

gdl -repo ./...

List dependencies including dependencies from the standard Go library.

gdl -std ./...

And putting it all together, list all dependencies in such away that you can script vendoring of dependencies.

gdl -no-vendored -repo -test ./...

Installation

Install via Go:

go get -u github.com/nathanielc/gdl

Arch Linux

AUR package coming soon

Motivation

I find most tools to manage dependencies for a Go project opaque and inconsistent. Instead of trying to solve the entire problem of Go dependency management this tool tries to improve one aspect, visibility into dependencies of a Go project. The utility is written with scripting in mind, so that the heavy lifting can be performed by external tools.