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• Unobtrusive dependency management
• Allows projects to be located anywhere, regardless of GOPATH
• Existing projects can be switched to goat without changing any code

See the introduction for more details.

Usage

Pulling dependencies for an existing project:

cd project/
goat deps

That's it. You just learned all the command-line stuff for goat.

Creating a new project:

mkdir newproject # Can be anywhere on the filesystem, regardless of GOPATH
cd newproject
vim .go.yaml

in .go.yaml put:

---
path: github.com/user/newproject

Adding a dependency to a project:

Change .go.yaml to read:

---
path: github.com/user/newproject
deps:
    - loc: gopkg.in/yaml.v1 # the same path you would use for go get

Adding a dependency with a specific version:

Change .go.yaml to read:

---
path: github.com/user/newproject
deps:
    - loc: gopkg.in/yaml.v1 # the same path you would use for go get

    - loc: https://github.com/mediocregopher/flagconfig.git
      type: git
      ref: v0.4.2 # A tag in this case, could be commit hash or branch name
      path: github.com/mediocregopher/flagconfig

Run goat deps to automatically fetch both of your dependencies into your project. Running goat build or goat run within your project will automatically use any dependencies goat has fetched.

More Usage

See the tutorial for a basic use case for goat with more explanation and a real project. After that check out the .go.yaml file for more details on what kind of features goat has for dependency management. There are also some special features that don't really fit in anywhere else that might be useful to know about.

Installation

To use goat you can either get a pre-compiled binary or build it yourself. Once you get the binary I recommend renaming it as go (alias go=goat), so that goat gets used whenever you use the go utility. Don't worry, all go commands inside and outside of goat projects will behave the same way.

Pre-built

Check the releases tab on github, the latest release will have pre-compiled binaries for various systems, choose the one that applies to you.

Build it yourself

To build goat yourself make sure you have go installed (go figure).

git clone https://github.com/mediocregopher/goat.git
cd goat
make

The binaries will be found in the bin directory.

Copyrights

Goat ASCII Art (c) 1997 ejm, Creative Commons