# kardianos/govendor

Use Go Modules.

Repository: https://github.com/kardianos/govendor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/govendor
Homepage: https://blog.golang.org/migrating-to-go-modules
Language: Go
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: go, golang, vendor
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-03-02T05:34:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4161, "days_push": 2375, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4893, forks 387 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:02.024940+00:00)

## What it is
govendor is a Go vendoring and dependency management tool that manages vendor directories for Go projects. It is now deprecated; the README explicitly tells users to use Go modules instead.

## Use cases
- manage vendor directory for a legacy Go project
- vendor Go dependencies without modules
- migrate an old GOPATH-based Go project to vendoring
- understand pre-modules Go dependency workflows

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy pre-modules Go codebase that still relies on vendor/ directories
- archaeology on how Go dependency management worked before Go modules

## When to avoid
- any new Go project - use Go modules instead
- modern Go development on Go 1.14 or later
- starting a new dependency management setup

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: package-manager, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, version-control
- platform: go, cross-platform, cli
- tags: go-vendoring, dependency-management, deprecated, legacy-tool, golang, command-line

## Member repositories
- kardianos/govendor (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:02.024940+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:18:11.000856+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kardianos/govendor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:02.024940+00:00, sha 6d98c31aa498)
  - homepage: https://blog.golang.org/migrating-to-go-modules (fetched 2026-08-29T09:00:24.114153+00:00, sha 77b7d933502b)
  - site_page: https://pkg.go.dev/about (fetched 2026-08-29T09:00:24.123490+00:00, sha 757852027879)
  - site_page: https://go.dev/project (fetched 2026-08-29T09:00:24.125356+00:00, sha d5ca00bb378b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.