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You don't need a makefile for go. Generally all you need are "go build" "go install" "go test". If you have some generated source you can now used "go generate".

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I use those now, but I want to setup some other ideas such as prompting for the database username/password to write into a config.go before compiling. I did not want to store information like this in a public git repo

I suggest that instead of compiling it into the binary, that you use environment variables instead. Or make it command line flags.

Then you can have a bash script that you don't check in that executes the variable with environment variables/ flags.

That doesn't cover non-go files though.

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