dep ensure -add waits for a long time without any feedback

[darkowlzz]

What version of dep are you using (dep version)?

v0.3.1-27-gfcbc4be

What dep command did you run?

$ time dep ensure -v -add gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4
<-------- LONG WAIT HERE WITHOUT ANY FEEDBACK------->
Root project is "github.com/darkowlzz/go-git-foo"
 1 transitively valid internal packages
 1 external packages imported from 1 projects
....
"gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4" is not imported by your project, and has been temporarily added to Gopkg.lock and vendor/.
If you run "dep ensure" again before actually importing it, it will disappear from Gopkg.lock and vendor/.

real	1m33.095s
user	0m3.245s
sys	0m3.689s

What did you expect to see?

Some feedback about what's happening. Maybe a message that it's fetching the source.

What did you see instead?

Nothing.

[carlisia]

I just started using dep, so take it with a grain or two of salt:

I was struggling with the -add flag too, dep wasn't recognizing it. It says in the README that's how to add a dependency.

I ran dep status and it listed an example of how to add the dependency I needed to add. So dep recognized what was missing and spelled it out for me!

This is what it showed:
dep ensure github.com/pkg/errors

It worked.

[sdboyer]

@carlisia hi! ah, you've got an old version! update to the latest release, and the docs should make more sense :)

[carlisia]

Ha! Thanks for pointing it out @sdboyer! But, is there a special way to update dep? Running go get -u github.com/golang/dep doesn't seem to give me the -add flag for the ensure cmd (See the image,) and I can't seem to find a cmd that'll give me the version of dep that I'm using.

Also, terribly sorry that I have hijacked this issue.

[ibrasho]

You can update dep by any of the following methods:

1. Download a binary from the releases page.
2. Install using brew (assuming you are on macOS).
3. go get -u github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep

[carlisia]

Ha. That worked, all good now. Thank you!