How to update a go dependency with different module name than src path?

Question

• The location: github.com/elastic/beats
• The mod file: github.com/elastic/beats/go.mod
• The module name: github.com/elastic/beats/v7
• The tag: v7.10.2

What LoTR incantation of go get to I have to run to get a little dependency update action?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65830463/how-to-update-a-go-dependency-with-different-module-name-than-src-path

Answer 1

This will update to latest minor.patch version of v7:

go get github.com/elastic/beats/v7

or if you want a specific version to update/downgrade to:

go get github.com/elastic/beats/[email protected]

Adding the -u flag will additionally update the dependencies of github.com/elastic/beats/v7:

go get -u github.com/elastic/beats/v7