如何获取Go依赖者列表

Question

Short of building a dependency graph, is there an existing way to retrieve a list of dependent packages given a target package?

Sourcegraph has a badge (shield) that shows you how many packages use a specific package but when I click their link to go to their UI, I cannot find a count or list of packages. Here's more info:

• Sourcegraph article: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/see-how-many-people-use-your-library-with-sourcegraph-badges/

Example badge:

GitHub has a dependency graph but it doesn't appear to list packages for Go and its docs only mention JavaScript and Ruby per the following:

• GitHub Depends on: https://help.github.com/articles/listing-the-packages-that-a-repository-depends-on/

Answer 1

go list can do this for you, with use of the -f flag.

go list -f '{{.Imports}}' ./...

Will show a list of all imports for the current and child directories. You can pipe this through sort -u, for example, to get a list of all dependencies, or do other standard shell-based massaging. Consult the documentation for all of the formatting options available.

If you need a recursive list, this is also possible with some shell scripting, by then using doing the same thing recursively on the output of the above command.