What's the proper way to "go get" a private repository?

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://[email protected]/"]
    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?

Solution 1:

You have one thing to configure. The example is based on GitHub but this shouldn't change the process:

$ git config --global [email protected]:.insteadOf https://github.com/
$ cat ~/.gitconfig
[url "[email protected]:"]
    insteadOf = https://github.com/
$ go get github.com/private/repo

For Go modules to work (with Go 1.11 or newer), you'll also need to set the GOPRIVATE variable, to avoid using the public servers to fetch the code:

export GOPRIVATE=github.com/private/repo

Solution 2:

The proper way is to manually put the repository in the right place. Once the repository is there, you can use go get -u to update the package and go install to install it. A package named

github.com/secmask/awserver-go

goes into

$GOPATH/src/github.com/secmask/awserver-go

The commands you type are:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/secmask
git clone [email protected]:secmask/awserver-go.git

Solution 3:

I had a problem with go get using private repository on gitlab from our company. I lost a few minutes trying to find a solution. And I did find this one:

1. You need to get a private token at:
   https://gitlab.mycompany.com/profile/account

2. Configure you git to add extra header with your private token:

    $ git config --global http.extraheader "PRIVATE-TOKEN: YOUR_PRIVATE_TOKEN"
   

3. Configure your git to convert requests from http to ssh:

    $ git config --global url."[email protected]:".insteadOf "https://gitlab.mycompany.com/"
   

4. Finally you can use your go get normally:

    $ go get gitlab.com/company/private_repo