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Dep is a prototype dependency management tool. It requires Go 1.7 or newer to compile.

dep is NOT an official tool. Yet. Check out the Roadmap!

Alpha. Functionality is known to be broken, missing or incomplete. Changes are planned to the CLI commands soon. It would be unwise to write scripts atop dep before then. The repository is open to solicit feedback and contributions from the community. Please see below for feedback and contribution guidelines.

Gopkg.toml and Gopkg.lock have reached a stable structure, and it is safe to commit them in your projects. We plan to add more to these files, but we guarantee these changes will be backwards-compatible.

• The Saga of Go Dependency Management
• Official Google Docs
  • Go Packaging Proposal Process
  • User Stories
  • Features
  • Design Space
• Frequently Asked Questions

Get the tool via

$ go get -u github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep

Typical usage on a new repo might be

$ dep init
$ dep ensure -update

To update a dependency to a new version, you might run

$ dep ensure github.com/pkg/errors@^0.8.0

See the help text for more detailed usage instructions.

Feedback is greatly appreciated. At this stage, the maintainers are most interested in feedback centered on the user experience (UX) of the tool. Do you have workflows that the tool supports well, or doesn't support at all? Do any of the commands have surprising effects, output, or results? Please check the existing issues and FAQ to see if your feedback has already been reported. If not, please file an issue, describing what you did or wanted to do, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened.

Contributions are greatly appreciated. The maintainers actively manage the issues list, and try to highlight issues suitable for newcomers. The project follows the typical GitHub pull request model. See CONTRIBUTING.md for more details. Before starting any work, please either comment on an existing issue, or file a new one.