Upgrade direct dependencies in combination with the go tool directive:

[hu3bi]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When clicking "Upgrade direct dependencies", VS Code pulls in several unnecessary (tool) dependencies, which are removed after running go mod tidy. This behavior may be confusing, especially for new Go developers.
Describe the solution you'd like
I would prefer the same outcome as running go get -u all

Or vscode could just keep the behavior as it is and run go mod tidy afterward

Additional context
golang/go#71663

[h9jiang]

Hi hu3bi,

Thanks for reporting this issue. The code lens is reported from gopls, see documentation.

Behind the scene, its running go get -d ..... from command.go.

I'm not expert of go binary, maybe @samthanawalla can share thoughts or concerns see if this is ok to change the implementations.

[ansaba]

cc: @matloob

[h9jiang]

Based on the discussion, I think we can do a go mod tidy after upgrade dependency.

Or consider running go get -u ./... behind the scene.