On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 3:34 PM, Richard Wilkes <raw.softw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Overall, I really like the direction vgo is headed. > > One thing that seems to be difficult, if not impossible to do (I've yet to > figure out how to do so, anyway) is to work with code that has yet to be > committed and resides outside of your module. This is a frequent occurrence > for me, as I often have to work on groups of changes that interact between > multiple repos. Yes, I'll eventually check those changes in, but usually > not while actively working on the problem. > I think a local replace will do that. Something like: replace " foo.com/my/pkg" v1.5.2 => ../local-clone-with-changes Put that in the top-level module, and it should override that import throughout the build with your local copy, pending changes and all. Or is that not what you were trying to do here? > Related to this, it took a few minutes to realize that you really can't > "downgrade" to a commit-level entry with the tool when a tag is present in > the repo -- you have to manually edit it to get the desired behavior. I put > downgrade in quotes because what I was actually trying to do was to get the > actual latest (HEAD) code, but could not without manually futzing with the > go.mod file. This is also something that I frequently need to do -- and I'm > relatively sure I'm not alone -- so it seems like the tool should make this > easy, not hard. > > Despite the two problems above, an inability to work with GitHub > Enterprise (filed in a bug report), and concern over how IDEs will work > with library source, I'm already enjoying working with vgo. > > - Rich > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
