# Both example.net/ambiguous v0.1.0 and example.net/ambiguous/pkg v0.1.0 exist. # 'go mod tidy' would arbitrarily choose the one with the longer path, # but 'go mod tidy' also arbitrarily chooses the latest version. cp go.mod go.mod.orig # From a clean slate, 'go get' currently does the same thing as 'go mod tidy': # it resolves the package from the module with the longest matching prefix. go get example.net/ambiguous/nested/pkg@v0.1.0 go list -m all stdout '^example.net/ambiguous/nested v0.1.0$' ! stdout '^example.net/ambiguous ' # From an initial state that already depends on the shorter path, # the same 'go get' command should (somewhat arbitrarily) keep the # existing path, since it is a valid interpretation of the command. cp go.mod.orig go.mod go mod edit -require=example.net/ambiguous@v0.1.0 go get example.net/ambiguous/nested/pkg@v0.1.0 go list -m all stdout '^example.net/ambiguous v0.1.0$' ! stdout '^example.net/ambiguous/nested ' # The user should be able to make the command unambiguous by explicitly # upgrading the conflicting module... go get example.net/ambiguous@v0.2.0 example.net/ambiguous/nested/pkg@v0.1.0 go list -m all stdout '^example.net/ambiguous/nested v0.1.0$' stdout '^example.net/ambiguous v0.2.0$' # ...or by explicitly NOT adding the conflicting module. cp go.mod.orig go.mod go mod edit -require=example.net/ambiguous@v0.1.0 go get example.net/ambiguous/nested/pkg@v0.1.0 example.net/ambiguous/nested@none go list -m all ! stdout '^example.net/ambiguous/nested ' stdout '^example.net/ambiguous v0.1.0$' # The user should also be able to fix it by *downgrading* the conflicting module # away. cp go.mod.orig go.mod go mod edit -require=example.net/ambiguous@v0.1.0 go get example.net/ambiguous@none example.net/ambiguous/nested/pkg@v0.1.0 go list -m all stdout '^example.net/ambiguous/nested v0.1.0$' ! stdout '^example.net/ambiguous ' # In contrast, if we do the same thing tacking a wildcard pattern ('/...') on # the end of the package path, we get different behaviors depending on the # initial state, and no error. (This seems to contradict the “same meaning # regardless of the initial state” point above, but maybe that's ok?) cp go.mod.orig go.mod go get example.net/ambiguous/nested/pkg/...@v0.1.0 go list -m all stdout '^example.net/ambiguous/nested v0.1.0$' ! stdout '^example.net/ambiguous ' cp go.mod.orig go.mod go mod edit -require=example.net/ambiguous@v0.1.0 go get example.net/ambiguous/nested/pkg/...@v0.1.0 go list -m all ! stdout '^example.net/ambiguous/nested ' stdout '^example.net/ambiguous v0.1.0$' -- go.mod -- module test go 1.16