Gravel is a build tool for Go monorepos. To speed up builds, gravel caches a hash of the files in a package that have changed since the last build, and only tests/builds the packages that depend on them. Gravel uses Go modules for managing dependencies, which makes it more feasible to use than something like Bazel for small/medium-sized projects.
$ go install github.com/egoodhall/gravel@latest
$ gravel build
Binaries built by gravel can have version embedded as shown below:
package example
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/egoodhall/gravel/pkg/buildinfo"
)
func PrintBuildInfo() {
// These values will be set by gravel during the build
fmt.Println("version:", buildinfo.GetVersion())
fmt.Println("commit: ", buildinfo.GetCommit())
}All binaries are placed into $root/gravel/bin.