Troubleshooting

This page lists solutions to problems you might encounter with go.szostok.io/version.

Build binary doesn't have default version data

You might find that your binary doesn't have the default version data. For example:

  Version             (devel)
  Git Commit          N/A
  Build Date          28 Jul 22 22:07 CEST (2 seconds ago)
  Commit Date
  Dirty Build         no
  Go Version          1.18.2
  Compiler            gc
  Platform            darwin/amd64

You can see that the git commit and the commit date are not populated. The problem might be related to the build process. In such a case, make sure that you don't specify the main.go file directly:

go build -o example ./cmd/client # NOTE: only the folder is specified

Difference:

-go build -o example ./cobra/main.go
+go build -o example ./cobra/