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# go-mod-archiver

Afraid of being unable to build historical versions of your Go program?

`go mod vendor` lets you check in your dependencies to git, but that's
both bloaty (for developers) and tedious (remembering to update it).

It's nicer to work day-to-day with only `go.mod` (and no `vendor` folder), trusting that
https://proxy.golang.org/ can give you any module version in the future.

Except https://proxy.golang.org/ doesn't necessarily retain everything forever.

Hence this project. **`go-mod-archiver`** is meant to run as a GitHub
Actions workflow and whenever your `go.mod` changes, it runs `go mod
vendor` and commits it into a git tag so you can get your dependent
code in the future if you really need to. (by syncing back to some old
point in time, looking at the SHA-256 of your `go.mod`, and fetching
that tag's `vendor` directory)

## Using

To use `go-mod-archiver`, see https://github.com/bradfitz/go-mod-archiver-test for:

* how to depend on this tool: https://github.com/bradfitz/go-mod-archiver-test/blob/main/tools.go (using the trick from https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules#how-can-i-track-tool-dependencies-for-a-module)

* an example GitHub workflow: https://github.com/bradfitz/go-mod-archiver-test/blob/main/.github/workflows/go-mod-archive.yml

## Example result

This is an example tag created by this tool:

https://github.com/bradfitz/go-mod-archiver-test/tree/archive/gomod%2Fa8ea9b345793e2188297f019febc875fb915e94d94f48cce9a4f760413a430b4

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