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Asked: 2026-06-18T10:49:23+00:00

I use the version control system git for my software. And within the source

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I use the version control system git for my software. And “within” the source code, I use go get to automatically fetch software from github. How can I handle the “double git” situation?

When I run git add on the directory src/github.com/somename/someproject, which is a git repository in itself, will this add anything? (it doesn’t look like this when I run git status)

Should I use git submodule for the git get added subdirectories?

What is the best practice in this situation?

Edit: I do have a custom $GOPATH environment for my software project. This is why the src/github.com/somename/someproject directory is found inside my software directory hierarchy.

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  1. Editorial Team

    While @nemo’s answer is probably the way to go, this is what I did: I stripped the .git and .gitignore files from the go get downloaded repositories. The source path I have is inside my source directory: GOPATH=.../myproject/src/go/. That way all the go get downloads are inside my project tree and I can just handle it with git.

    I think that this is what “goven” (see my comment on my question) is supposed to do, but I wasn’t able to get it to work.

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