Go vendor for debugging dependencies

TIL how to debug dependencies in Go easily.

One of my deps have a client timeout of 2 * time.Second which meant debugging the connections was nearly impossible.

I ran go mod vendor and I was then able to make changes to the vendored code. I increased the timeout to something reasonable and was able to find the issue.

I could use the replace directive in my go.mod and clone down the repo but that seemed like a lot of work. If vendoring didn’t work it would of been my next step but vendor is perfect for simple changes like this.

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