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bcmills opened this issue Nov 14, 2018 · 1 comment
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cmd/go: add a 'go mod why' mode to answer “why this specific version?” #28800

bcmills opened this issue Nov 14, 2018 · 1 comment
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bcmills commented Nov 14, 2018

As noted in #28795 (comment), today we can use go mod graph to figure out which module imposes a particular version of a dependency, then use go mod why to figure out why that module is included.

However, that's two queries to answer what is logically a single question: “why was this version of the module selected?” Perhaps we should add a go mod why flag to answer that question more directly.

(CC @rsc @myitcv @thepudds)
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bcmills commented Nov 15, 2018

Re-reading #27900, I realize that this is a duplicate. Oops!

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