On Sunday, 4 December 2022 at 15:13:46 UTC+1 ren...@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Can’t you use a replace directive to use the fork ? >
No, not in the general case. V. > > On Dec 4, 2022, at 6:17 AM, Volker Dobler <dr.volke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You cannot use a "fork". The Github concept of a "fork" doesn't > > work together with the concept of a Go module. > You are free to fork a repo and you can modify the source > after git cloning your "fork" you even can build the "fork" and > go install it's binaries by simply running go install inside > of the "fork". But your "fork" just remains a Github-fork, > it's not a software fork of the original module. For that you > have to rename it. Forks in Go cannot (for reasonable definition > of cannot) have the the same name as the original. > > V. > > On Saturday, 3 December 2022 at 12:55:08 UTC+1 dun...@harris3.org wrote: > >> This seems a noddy question but can't easily find an answer with Google >> apparently. I may have lost the plot :-) >> >> There is a repo which contains source for a go executable that I want to >> use. >> Normally I install this with: go install original.domain/path@latest >> I want to fork that repo and make some experimental changes. >> So then I want to: go install my.forked.domain/path@commit >> But if I don't also change the go.mod file in my fork I get something >> like: >> >> go: downloading my.forked.domain/path v0.0.0-20221203102529-commit >> go: my.forked.domain/path@commit: >> my.forked.domain/pa...@v0.0.0-20221203102529-commit: >> parsing go.mod: >> module declares its path as: original.domain/path >> but was required as: my.forked.domain/path >> >> Obviously I could change the go.mod in my fork, but that seems wrong if I >> later want to submit a PR on the original repo. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/50ed3b47-75e6-4e4c-b06f-1da5351481e7n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/50ed3b47-75e6-4e4c-b06f-1da5351481e7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/2d404195-2a47-47e9-98f8-273e8159426fn%40googlegroups.com.
