Go mod

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go.mod

init

Initialize a v0 or v1 module:

go mod init example.com/m

Initialize a v2 module:

go mod init example.com/m/v2

tidy

Inspect the code, look for module imports, recursively, download them and update go.mod.

go mod tidy

If we know our dependency, it is sufficient to add it to the import list, then execute go mod tidy:

import (
	consul "github.com/hashicorp/consul/api"
)

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