How to use Go with a private GitLab repo

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James Fremen picture James Fremen · Apr 17, 2015 · Viewed 39.4k times · Source

GitLab is a free, open-source way to host private .git repositories but it does not seem to work with Go. When you create a project it generates a URL of the form:

[email protected]:private-developers/project.git

where:

  • 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of the gitlab server
  • private-developers is a user group which has access to the private repo

Golang 1.2.1 doesn't seem to understand this syntax.

go get [email protected]:private-developers/project.git

results in:

package [email protected]/project.git: unrecognized import path "[email protected]/project.git"

Is there a way to get this to work?

Answer

Rick Smith picture Rick Smith · Jun 15, 2016

Run this command:

git config --global url."[email protected]:".insteadOf "https://1.2.3.4/"

Assuming you have the correct privileges to git clone the repository, this will make go get work for all repos on server 1.2.3.4.

I tested this with go version 1.6.2, 1.8, and 1.9.1.

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