Hi All,
My team own a large product that sprawls across a lot of repos. We also
manage a private, commercial fork and we occasionally do new development in
private and then merge across to open source. While a monorepo might have
been easier to manage, we're stuck with what we've got. We've recently
moved to go mod and it just seems like we're constantly fighting the tool.
I'm hoping you can either suggest some good workflows or maybe improve the
tool!
I think the biggest problem we have is when working with private repos.
What I want to express to the tool is
My module requires commit abcd1234 (or version v1.2.3) of dependency x/y/z
Look for any instances of dependency x/y/z in git repo
g...@github.com:ourfork instead of the default.
However, what I can express to the tool is
My module requires version ??? of dependency x/y/z
Replace x/y/z @ version ??? with <other module> @ abcd1234
This throws up a couple of problems:
- What should version ??? be? It's only there to be replaced, which
seems like a bit of a smell.
- If I set it to the commit ID it gets resolved and I have to change
three places in the file each time I move the pin.
- If I set it to a particular version, that seems misleading.
- I guess I can set it to v0.0.0, but again that seems misleading.
- There's nowhere to specify the details of the repo (e.g.
connection/auth type), all that has to magically work according to my git
settings and the defaults aren't great for private repos (which we access
over ssh).
We also just ran into the new GOPRIVATE env var and had to update all our
builds to use that. Couldn't that just fall back to the private behaviour
if it gets a cache miss, it seems over-engineered to require an explicit
exception!
Another issue we've had is making a build mode where we can build against
local copies of the dependencies for quick development. We can add replace
directives to point to local directories, which is part of the puzzle, but
it's hard to do that "just for one build". Not sure what we're looking for
here; maybe an optional go.mod override file that can be passed in for just
one build?
-Shaun
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