`go install pkg@version` doesn't support installing from a fork. The argument is best understood as a module identity rather than source code location.
- sean On Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 11:55 Duncan Harris <dun...@harris3.org> wrote: > This seems a noddy question but can't easily find an answer with Google > apparently. I may have lost the plot :-) > > There is a repo which contains source for a go executable that I want to > use. > Normally I install this with: go install original.domain/path@latest > I want to fork that repo and make some experimental changes. > So then I want to: go install my.forked.domain/path@commit > But if I don't also change the go.mod file in my fork I get something like: > > go: downloading my.forked.domain/path v0.0.0-20221203102529-commit > go: my.forked.domain/path@commit > : my.forked.domain/path@v0.0.0-20221203102529-commit: parsing go.mod: > module declares its path as: original.domain/path > but was required as: my.forked.domain/path > > Obviously I could change the go.mod in my fork, but that seems wrong if I > later want to submit a PR on the original repo. > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/9a9542bd-1718-4ea7-a0ed-42b343bb9699n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/9a9542bd-1718-4ea7-a0ed-42b343bb9699n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAGabyPoRcekTD0R7JB51%3DOSSVsyDLUsTEuGYjNvYUvOOGZuw7Q%40mail.gmail.com.
