dep is a dependency management tool for golang. If you have done any software development before, dep is similar to npm, pod or pip. In simple words, it is a package manager to manage your project’s third party libraries.
How to install it There’s a few ways to install dep. Personally I prefer to install it with Homebrew
$~ brew install dep Initializing a project with dep To initialize it in your go project, go to your project directory and run the following
To view the changes between your latest git pull
$~ git pull origin $~ git diff @{1}.. @{n} means the n-th previous value of HEAD. You can refer the official docs on reflog Shortnames for more.
p/s: I am currently trying to dissociate myself from becoming too dependent on SourceTree for daily git operations.
I learned about Go examples and benchmarks today. They are parts of Go default package testing.
Examples Go Examples are executed just like tests They are compiled and optionally executed as part of unit tests It resides in the package *_test.go files Structure func ExampleRepeat() { repeated := Repeated("x", 5) fmt.Println(repeated) // output: xxxxx } Rules Function name must be prefix with Example It must have // output: result How to Use to run the test with example, use: go test -v Sample Execution $ go test -v === RUN TestRepeat --- PASS: TestRepeat (0.