How does Go update third-party packages?

Question

Looking how actively golang packages grow and improve I wonder how the problem with package versions is solved?

I see that one way is to store third-party packages u

Answer 1

The above answeres have the following problems:

1. They update everything including your app (in case you have uncommitted changes).
2. They updated packages you may have already removed from your project but are already on your disk.

To avoid these, do the following:

1. Delete the 3rd party folders that you want to update.
2. go to your app folder and run go get -d