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The minimal version selection addresses a problem that other package managers do not seem to : For transitive dependencies, it allows projects to use the version that direct dependency was actually tested with. This sounds like a good thing to have.

What would be nice would be a command to upgrade to latest of the direct dependencies - and then transitively pull in the latest version of packages they have been tested with.

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As I understand it right now,

vgo get -u

(As a reminiscence to go get -u) should do what you want.

I might missinterpret your need though.

https://research.swtch.com/vgo-tour

I believe this will get the latest of all the dependencies, not just the direct ones. If my module A depends on B and C, which both in turn depend on D, i want the latest of B and C only, and then transitively pull in the minimal version D compatible with B and C.

edit : I can of course do it one by one explicitly for B and C. But it would be nice to qualify e.g. : vgo get -u -directonly

I think that is a fair request. Fill an issue?

Done. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24042

Not sure if i did it right, since the default template seems to be for a bug and not a new feature request.

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