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> if your projects use vendoring (which they should)

For versioning? Also:

1. I haven't seen projects on github using vendoring

2. It doesn't look like `go get` allows you to download a package directly into your vendor file

For my personal project [1] I use vendoring. But as of Go 1.8 it is still inconvenient as the main package has to be on GOPATH/GOROOT or the compiler will not find it.

To maintain it I use git-subrepo [2], a very convenient tool to embed the code into own tree.

[1] - https://github.com/ibukanov/ljdumpgo

[2] - https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo

Have a look at /coreos on GitHub -- flannel, dex and prometheus-operator all use vendoring, just looking at what's pinned. matchbox does also.

Thanks for the examples!

https://github.com/coreos/flannel/tree/master/vendor

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