shed
shed is a simple CLI tool that makes it easy to install and manage Go tool dependencies.
It is built on top of Go Modules, and allows for reproducible dev environments.
Installation
Homebrew
brew install cszatmary/tap/shed
Binary Release
curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cszatmary/shed/main/scripts/install.sh | sh -s -- -b /usr/local/bin
This will install it to /usr/local/bin/shed
. You can specify a different path to -b
to customize the install location.
You can also install a specific version by providing the git tag as an argument.
curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cszatmary/shed/main/scripts/install.sh | sh -s -- -b /usr/local/bin v0.1.0
Install from source
You can also install shed using go get
:
go get github.com/cszatmary/shed
Note: Installing from source requires a minimum Go version of 1.17.
Usage
shed requires a minimum Go version of 1.11
to be installed. This is because it builds tools from source using Go modules.
shed uses the import path with an optional version to install tools, just like go get
in module mode.
shed get github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint@v1.33.0
If the version is omitted, the latest version will be installed.
shed get github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint
If no arguments are provided, shed will install all tools in the shed.lock
file.
shed get
To uninstall a tool use the special @none
version suffix.
shed get github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint@none
Once a tool is installed it can be run using shed run
. This can take either the name of the tool binary,
or the full import path.
Note: The binary name must be unique to use it directly.
shed run golangci-lint run
Or
shed run github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint run
All additional arguments are passed to the tool being run. Any flags after the tool name are passed to the
tool directly and are not parsed by shed.
shed run stringer -type=Pill
shed.lock
shed will generate a shed.lock
file in the current directory if one does not already exists. This contains a list of all
installed tools and their verions. If new tools are installed, or tools are uninstalled, the lockfile is updated accordingly.
The shed.lock
file allows shed to have reproducible installs. It ensures that the same version of each tool is always installed.
For this reason, it is recommended that you check this into source control.