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

I have created a user specific ssh-config, so my user automatically logs in with the correct credentials and key.

First I needed to generate an key-pair

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[e-mail]"

and saved it to e.g ~/.ssh/id_my_domain. Note that this is also the keypair (private and public) I've connected to my Github account, so mine is stored in~/.ssh/id_github_com.

I have then created (or altered) a file called ~/.ssh/config with an entry:

Host github.com
    HostName github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_github_com

On another server, the "ssh-url" is [e-mail]:username/private-repo.git and the entry for this server would have been:

Host domain.com
    HostName domain.com
    User admin
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_domain_com

Just to clarify that you need ensure that the User, Host and HostName is set correctly.

Now I can just browse into the go path and then go get <package>, e.g go get main where the file main/main.go includes the package (from last example above) domain.com:username/private-repo.git.