How to update Go dependencies

Question

the go mod tidy adds package dependencies to the go.mod file. How we can update them automatically without manually editing go.mod file, e.g. by removing some entries? For instance, if I use make I want to add a similar command that can update all dependencies of my package/repo and then compile the code with latest version of package dependencies.

Answer 1

In order to update all the dependencies you need to use:

go get -u

And then go mod tidy.

go get -u updates all packages and their dependencies, changing the go.mod.