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Comment by tamalsaha001 | Hacker News Reader

Lot of thanks to the author for this post. I have 2 questions:

1. How does one use a branch of a dependency in go.mod? (scenario: local dev where api & impl repos are separated)

2. How does one use branch from a fork in go.mod? (scenario: fixed bug in someone else's repo and now want to use my fork)

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1. IIRC you should be able to do

  go get example.com/repo@branch-1

2. Something like

  go mod edit -replace example.com/repo@version=example.com/fork@version

It seems like the second command doesn't understand branches, so you'll need to specify a "pseudo-version" like "v0.0.0-20171125154426-754f7301a386". Or maybe my go1.11 is just out of date.

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