The 'go get' tool is just a small convenience wrapper around git/hg/svn. Its intended for use by developers, for quickly taking a look at some source code. The

The 'go get' tool is just a small convenience wrapper around git/hg/svn. Its intended for use by developers, for quickly taking a look at some source code. The tour use case you cited is also a good fit for 'go get'. It was never intended to be a part of your production build process. If you push its outputs directly to production, you're holding it wrong.