What's the proper way to “go get” a private re

Question

I'm searching for the way to get $ go get work with private repository, after many google try.

The first try:

$ go get -v gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go
Fetching https://gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go?go-get=1
https fetch failed.
Fetching http://gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go?go-get=1
Parsing meta tags from http://gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go?go-get=1 (status code 200)
import "gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go": parse http://gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go?go-get=1: no go-import meta tags
package gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go: unrecognized import path "gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go

Yep, it did not see the meta tags because I could not know how to provide login information.

The second try:

Follow https://gist.github.com/shurcooL/6927554. Add config to .gitconfig.

[url "ssh://[e-mail]/"]
    insteadOf = https://gitlab.com/
$ go get -v gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go --> not work
$ go get -v gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go.git --> work but I got src/gitlab.com/secmask/awserer-go.git

Yes it work but with .git extension with my project name, I can rename it to original but do it everytime $ go get is not so good, is there an otherway?

Answer 1

If you've already got git using SSH, this answer by Ammar Bandukwala is a simple workaround:

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$ go get uses git internally. The following one liners will make git and consequently $ go get clone your package via SSH.

Github:

$ git config --global url."[e-mail]:".insteadOf "https://github.com/"

BitBucket:

$ git config --global url."[e-mail]:".insteadOf "https://bitbucket.org/"

Answer 2

According to this link - https://gist.github.com/shurcooL/6927554 - you have two things to configure. The example is based on GitHub but this shouldn't change the process

$ git config --global [e-mail]:.insteadOf https://github.com/
$ cat ~/.gitconfig
[url "[e-mail]:"]
    insteadOf = https://github.com/
$ go get github.com/private/repo

Answer 3

The proper way is to manually put the repository in the right place. Once the repository is there, you can use go get -u to update the package and go install to install it. A package named

github.com/secmask/awserver-go

goes into

$GOPATH/src/github.com/secmask/awserver-go

The commands you type are:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/secmask
git clone [e-mail]:secmask/awserver-go.git

Answer 4

Generate a github oauth token here and export your github token as an environment variable:

export GITHUB_TOKEN=123

Set git config to use the basic auth url:

git config --global url."https://$GITHUB_TOKEN:[e-mail]/".insteadOf "https://github.com/"

Now you can go get your private repo.

Answer 5

I had a problem with go get using private repository on gitlab from our company. I lost a few minutes trying to find a solution. And I did find this one:

1. You need to get a private token at:
   https://gitlab.mycompany.com/profile/account

2. Configure you git to add extra header with your private token:

   $ git config --global http.extraheader "PRIVATE-TOKEN: YOUR_PRIVATE_TOKEN
   

3. Configure your git to convert requests from ssh to http:

   $ git config --global url."[e-mail]:".insteadOf "https://gitlab.mycompany.com/"
   

4. Finally you can use your go get normally:

   $ go get gitlab.com/company/private_repo
   

Answer 6

That looks like the GitLab issue 5769.

In GitLab, since the repositories always end in .git, I must specify .git at the end of the repository name to make it work, for example:

import "example.org/myuser/mygorepo.git"

And:

$ go get example.org/myuser/mygorepo.git

Looks like GitHub solves this by appending ".git".

It is supposed to be resolved in “Added support for Go's repository retrieval. #5958”, provided the right meta tags are in place.
Although there is still an issue for Go itself: “cmd/go: go get cannot discover meta tag in HTML5 documents”.