I have a Go project called Shop. This project needs to have a web server and a cli tool.

Because of this, I created two different repositories, as they have their own dependencies. For example, the web server uses fiber framework, whereas the cli tool uses cobra package. Of course there are many other dependencies, that each project needs and they are not shared at all.

However, I have quite a bit of logic and types that are the same in both projects (and therefore repositories).

About 15% of codebase in each repo is the same.

This means that at the moment I am copy/pasting the same code to the other repo whenever I change that shared functionality.

I want to simplify this somehow and I couldn't get a grip around how to do this properly.

Each repository lives outside of $GOPATH/src. Is the solution to move them inside $GOPATH/src and then use go get to add let's say server repository to cli one?

CodePudding user response：

git submodules can be helpful, the doc.

CodePudding user response：

Something that might be helpful to share code in a common Go module: https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/call-module-code