getGoDependencyHierarchy

A utility for getting the dependencies of a specific package in a Go module.

Example using Zsh on MacOS

Looking for github.com/spf13/cobra with tag v1.1.1 in grokify/go-aha.
A module is directly using¹ the module which is directly under it.

  $ git clone 'https://github.com/grokify/go-aha.git'
 
  $ cd go-aha
 
  $ git checkout v0.2.3

  $ getGoDependencyHierarchy 'github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.1.1'
            github.com/grokify/go-aha
                       ⬇
       github.com/grokify/gocharts@v1.16.8
                       ⬇
    github.com/wcharczuk/go-chart@v2.0.1+incompatible
                       ⬇
      github.com/blend/go-sdk@v1.20211204.3
                       ⬇
          github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.1.1

Timeout feature

By default the script will timeout after 16 seconds. In order to change the default time limit (in seconds) set the $GGDH_TIMEOUT env var.

Note: Depending on your shell, this might need to be exported.

Limited support for Incompatible Packages

Scenario Description	Support
Chain starts with an incompatible pkg	❌
Incompatible pkgs inside the chain	✔️
Chain ends with an incompatible pkg	✔️

Footnotes

1. Directly using means the module is directly inside go.mod not just go.sum. ↩