As I understood, the original idea with go gettable libraries was that: - All releases go on master. Dev goes on separate branches. - Do not make backwards

As I understood, the original idea with go gettable libraries was that: - All releases go on master. Dev goes on separate branches. - Do not make backwards incompatible changes. If you need to make big changes, make another project. A lot of libraries ignored the advice. Whenever a library breaks its API (sqlx for example), I stop using the library. This has made go get usable for me.