On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 6:25 PM changkun <h...@changkun.de> wrote:

> As far as I know, there are two approaches to add extra information at build 
> time:
> 1. using -ldflags="-X path/pkg.Var=${ENV_VAR}", in a Makefile
> 2. using `go generate ./...`, before `go build`
>
> These approaches are good as it is if I build my binary and distribute it to 
> other users.
> However, none of these are possible if a user uses `go get 
> github.com/user/pkg/cmd/x-cli`, because:
> 1. `go get` does not understand Makefile
> 2. `go generate` does not execute with `go build` automatically.
>
> What should I do in order to plug the extra information (in my case, the git 
> version) if my user uses "go get"?

I don't think that can be done. Also IINM, in module mode `go get` no
longer uses git. It just downloads the zipped version of the
appropriate tag via http from the hosting service.

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