protoc-gen-deepcopy

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Overview

protoc-gen-deepcopy is a plugin for the Google protocol buffer compiler to generate Go code. Run it by building this program and putting it in your path with the name

protoc-gen-deepcopy

That word 'deepcopy' at the end becomes part of the option string set for the protocol compiler, so once the protocol compiler (protoc) is installed you can run

protoc --deepcopy_out=:out_directory --go_out=output_directory input_directory/file.proto

to generate vine code for the protocol defined by file.proto. With input that, the output will be written to

output_directory/file.deepcopy.pb.go

The generated code is documented in the package comment for the library.

See the README and documentation is protocol buffers to learn more:

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/