Using idflags to Set Version Information for Go Applications

Gopher Guides
Nov 1 · 1 min read

If you build and deploy #golang applications to production, you’ll want to “burn” in specific information, like version, branch information, etc. You can do this with ldflags. Learn how in this comprehensive @digitalocean article!

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