'dep' does have plans to address this, but yes, it is not going to happen soon. 'dep' seems great for Noddy projects where all the code you are working on is i

'dep' does have plans to address this, but yes, it is not going to happen soon. 'dep' seems great for Noddy projects where all the code you are working on is in a single package, and fails (like most of the vendoring tools) when you need to work on multiple packages. It is has unfortunately been focused on vendoring at the package level rather than at the project level, and has many assumptions buried deeply into the code. The recommendation for larger projects is the 'vg' tool, which wraps 'dep' with some GOPATH tricks to help manage your dependencies at the project level.