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Working with forks in Go

Charles Francoise on January 09, 2018

Proper use of forks Have you ever wanted to create a fork of a Go package you're using? Maybe you need to add a feature, specific to y...
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Caner Çıdam •

Nice approach! This also works fine for me if the package is not something to be imported by another package (i.e. a final product):

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/username
$ git clone https://github.com/username/repo && cd repo
$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/original/repo
$ cd .. && cd .. && mkdir original
$ mv username/repo original/repo
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Orkun Külçe •

Thanks for your solution. I had to fetch before setting the upstream branch.

git fetch --all