Golang cmd/go: clean doesn't respect workspace vendoring

Go version

go1.23.10

Output of go env in your module/workspace:

GO111MODULE='ON'
GOARCH='amd64'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/home/acedus/.cache/go-build'
GOENV='/home/acedus/.config/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFLAGS=''
GOHOSTARCH='amd64'
GOHOSTOS='linux'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMODCACHE='/home/acedus/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB=''
GOOS='linux'
GOPATH='/home/acedus/go'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='direct'
GOROOT='/usr/lib/golang'
GOSUMDB='off'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='local'
GOTOOLDIR='/usr/lib/golang/pkg/tool/linux_amd64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.23.10'
GODEBUG=''
GOTELEMETRY='local'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/home/acedus/.config/go/telemetry'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GOAMD64='v1'
AR='ar'
CC='gcc'
CXX='g++'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
GOMOD='/home/acedus/dev/repos/kubevirt/go.mod'
GOWORK='/home/acedus/dev/repos/kubevirt/go.work'
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -m64 -pthread -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build3009368656=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches'

What did you do?

Running go clean -mod=vendor in conjunction with go workspaces fails due to inconsistent vendoring despite having run go work vendor.

It appears that go clean doesn't call modload.InitWorkfile which in turn causes the command to be oblivious to workspaces. Adding modload.InitWorkfile to runClean fixes the issue.

What did you see happen?

go clean -mod=vendor
go: inconsistent vendoring in /home/acedus/dev/repos/kubevirt:
    kubevirt.io/api: is replaced in go.mod, but not marked as replaced in vendor/modules.txt
    kubevirt.io/client-go: is replaced in go.mod, but not marked as replaced in vendor/modules.txt

    To ignore the vendor directory, use -mod=readonly or -mod=mod.
    To sync the vendor directory, run:
        go mod vendor

What did you expect to see?

go clean -mod=vendor should succeed when used in conjunction with go workspaces.

Comment From: gabyhelp

Related Issues

• cmd/go: default `-mod=vendor` behavior unexpectedly present in workspace mode #54130 (closed)
• cmd/go: go mod vendor ignore workspace #54452 (closed)
• cmd/go: work sync and mod vendor don't use other main modules in workspace #53904 (closed)
• cmd/go: support vendoring in workspace mode #60056 (closed)
• cmd/go: 1.18 fails when vendoring and main module replaces itself #51285 (closed)
• cmd/go: exclude vendor directories when using `go work use -r .` #51710
• proposal: cmd/go: add way to force ignoring vendor directory #39247 (closed)
• go build not use vendor package in 1.13.5 #38640 (closed)
• cmd/go: bad error message when using `vendor` directory while specifying too old Go version #67587 (closed)
• Proposal: Respect the vendor folder is one exits. #34371 (closed)

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Comment From: gopherbot

Change https://go.dev/cl/682856 mentions this issue: cmd/go: clean should respect workspaces

Comment From: dmitshur

CC @golang/command-line.