I have done this many times. Some repositories are more of a pain than others to move. I was amused to learn after having done this with github.com/btcsuite/btcd, that the btcjson, btcec, btcutil and btclog repos all were separate but quite tightly bound both to each other and it took me about half a day to fix it. Part of my solution was copying those repos, removing the .git folder. I could have rather forked all of them, but those 4 in particular and the main btcd were very tangled and hard to separate.
My opinion is that there should be a simple way to refer to orthogonal repos, and sub-folders, with simple relative paths. So instead of "github.com/btcsuite/btcd/blockchain" I can just say "./blockchain" or instead of "github.com/btcsuite/btclog" I can say "../btclog" and the rest is inferred from the module spec and/or gopath location. I use Visual Studio Code (it has the best go toolchain integration I am aware of) and its search-in-repository functions are quite good, but it's easy to make a mistake and accidentally cast too wide a net, and the poor-man's-cut-down-for-no-reason regex searching doesn't help either. It's not difficult, just tedious, and it would be nice if there was relative paths allowed for imports. On Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:12:53 UTC+1, Sotirios Mantziaris wrote: > > Hi, > > i want to move a repo from my github account to another one. Goal is to > have a new import path for the new forked repository. > There are 2 ways of achieving the move: > > - Forking > - Transfer repository > > Is it possible to fork a repo and change the import path of the repository? > > If the transfer option is chosen we just have to change all imports in the > code, which severs the ties for the originating project. > > Is it possible to have: > > - both repos > - every repo with it's own import path > - code exchange between them > > What are the options? > -- 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.
