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Here’s the issue it comes out of: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26610 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26610

• chx 8y ago
  Wait, so this command was born out of necessity to get dep feature parity? This just gets better and better.
  • bketelsen 8y ago
    no it was added at the request of the athens project (github.com/gomods/athens) so there would be a canonical way to download modules that we could use to prime the cache.
    • sgnnseven 8y ago
      Categorically wrong - please don't spread lies. I opened the original issue in question due to lack of feature parity and it got quickly closed (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26610#event-1753880630 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26610#event-1753880630). Then after some twitter back-and-forth (https://twitter.com/sgnn7/status/1022547467466956802 https://twitter.com/sgnn7/status/1022547467466956802) the issue got reopened.