You're using go test, with -mod=readonly, but it's running your code with go run, without -mod=readonly.
Either you'll need to unconditionally pass -mod=readonly to go run in the regression_test.go file, or find wether it's been passed to go test and then conditionally pass it to go run. On Sun, 2020-11-01 at 01:09 -0700, Miki Tebeka wrote: > I *do* use "go test", see > https://github.com/tebeka/recheck/blob/master/regression_test.go > > On Sunday, November 1, 2020 at 8:43:33 AM UTC+2 amits...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > > On Sun, 1 Nov 2020, 4:07 pm Miki Tebeka, <miki....@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I wrote a regexp linter (https://github.com/tebeka/recheck) > > > that's using golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis. > > > > > > To test the tool, I run "go run ./cmd/recheck testdata/ok.go" > > > (using os/exec). The problem is that after the test, go.mod & > > > go.sum are modified since there are some external imports in the > > > go files under testdata. > > > > > > I've tried using -mod=readonly, building & then running, moving > > > the test file to /tmp - all of them didn't work, the mod files > > > are still changed after the test. > > > > > > Any idea how can I prevent the test from modifing the mod files? > > > > Your example above suggests you are not using go test to execute > > your tests? > > > > > Thanks, > > > Miki -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/80699bdc8a81f300b2b769ae7c8a40dbdead6d7d.camel%40kortschak.io.