Thank you very much! I have no idea why I thought I needed to change go.mod. I did run into some strange effects changing my local version back to "sclevine" though - I also needed to remove the cached versions in *go/pkg*. Thanks again!
Brad On Sunday, 26 July 2020 at 13:03:22 UTC+12 Denis Cheremisov wrote: > As soon as I understand you can just keep their module name in `go.mod` > and that's it. > > воскресенье, 26 июля 2020 г. в 03:46:15 UTC+3, brad.be...@gmail.com: > >> Hi folks. I was unable to find a good answer online already. The >> closest I found was >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14323872/using-forked-package-import-in-go >> which >> suggests using the replace directive in go.mod. >> >> I am using Go 1.14, with all projects located outside of GOPATH. >> >> My exact situation: I've forked https://github.com/sclevine/agouti to >> https://github.com/Bradbev/agouti. Originally I renamed all instances >> of "sclevine" to "Bradbev" - this works, but doesn't feel right. >> Presumably future PR's will be a hassle due to the import changes. >> I'm trying to fix it locally before pushing up. So, what I have locally >> is >> 1) A new module agout_test, which contains "replace >> github.com/bradbev/agouti => ../agouti" in go.mod so that my test >> project references a local copy >> 2) A local copy of bradbev/agouti at ../agouti. >> >> Without changes (ie, import paths ARE rewritten), this works. When I >> change my local agouti imports back to "sclevine", and add "replace >> github.com/sclevine/agouti => github.com/bradbev/agouti" to >> ../agouti/go.mod, my test complains with: >> >> ✘-1 ~/development/gomod/agouti_test >> >> 22:51 $ go build main.go && ./main >> >> ../agouti/selectable.go:5:2: use of internal package >> github.com/sclevine/agouti/internal/element not allowed >> >> ../agouti/multiselection.go:3:8: use of internal package >> github.com/sclevine/agouti/internal/target not allowed >> >> >> This suggests to me that the replace directive is working, but is being >> disallowed for "/internal" packages. >> >> What is the correct way to fork this module please? >> >> Thanks, >> Brad >> > -- 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/61dba235-25c4-4751-b7c1-20a3982d8219n%40googlegroups.com.
