Drop

Dependency-less dependencies for Go.

Features:

• Drop copies dependency source files into your project
• Rewrites package declaration to match your code
• Familiar usage - uses go get under the hood
• Configurable by package authors

Get started:

• How it works
• Install
• Usage
• Package authors

How it works

From inside your project (where files will be copied):

drop {import-path}

For example, to add the retry functionality from github.com/matryer/try:

drop github.com/matryer/try

The *.go files from the package will be copied into your project.

Install

Install with:

go get github.com/matryer/drop

Usage

  drop [flags] import [path]

  flags       - see below
  import      - import path to go get
  path        - directory within repo to copy from

flags:
  -f	overwrite files
  -help
    	show help
  -outformat string
    	filename format (default "%s")
  -package string
    	package name (default auto discover)
  -v	verbose logging
  -version
    	print version

Package authors

By default, all *.go files are copied (including test files). To explicitly specify what is copied, you can add a .drop file to the directory, where each line is a file, or filepath.Match pattern:

Example .drop file

# .drop file for this project

something.go
something_test.go
something_tips.md
*.sh

• Comments (lines beginning with #) and empty lines are ignored