To resolve this you need to define [prune]
settings which determine what files and directories can be deemed unnecessary, and thus automatically removed from vendor/.
The following options are currently available:
-
unused-packages
indicates that files from directories that do not appear in the package import graph should be pruned
-
non-go
prunes files that are not used by Go
-
go-tests
prunes Go test files
Out of an abundance of caution, dep non-optionally preserves files that may have legal significance.
Pruning options are disabled by default. However, generating a Gopkg.toml
via dep init
will add lines to enable go-tests
and unused-packages
prune options at the root level.
[prune]
go-tests = true
unused-packages = true
The same prune options can be defined per-project. An additional name field is required and, as with [[constraint]]
and [[override]]
, should be a source root, not just any import path.
[prune]
non-go = true
[[prune.project]]
name = "github.com/project/name"
go-tests = true
non-go = false
Almost all projects will be fine without setting any project-specific rules, and enabling the following pruning rules globally:
[prune]
unused-packages = true
go-tests = true
It is usually safe to set non-go = true
, as well. However, as dep
only has a clear model for the role played by Go files, and non-Go files necessarily fall outside that model, there can be no comparable general definition of safety.