Thanks for answering my questions in paragraphs 2 and 3. Not sure how paragraph 1 was useful.

I see godep as a swiss knife of tools, and different people use godep in completely different ways (which has its advantages and disadvantages). Personally, the only godep commands I use are:

  rm ./Godeps && godep save --copy=false      # Save current dep versions
  rm -rf $TMPDIR/godep && godep go build/test # build/test using saved dep versions