CHchrisbroadfoot·Mar 25, 2019
https://github.com/rogpeppe/gohack is great for this.
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Make temporary edits to your Go module dependencies
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Make temporary edits to your Go module dependencies
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| Oct 8 | 2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 15 | 2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 22 | 2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 29 | 2018-10-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 5 | 2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-11-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 19 | 2018-11-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-11-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 26 | 2018-11-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 3 | 2018-12-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 10 | 2018-12-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 17 | 2018-12-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-24 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 24 | 2018-12-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 31 | 2018-12-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 7 | 2019-01-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 14 | 2019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 21 | 2019-01-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 28 | 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-02-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 4 | 2019-02-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-02-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 11 | 2019-02-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-02-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Mar 18 | 2019-03-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 25 | 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesWhich is, of course, totally unacceptable. This is a critical use case for doing deep-dive debugging or for code exploration. Fortunately for us there is the wonderfully named "gohack", which does easily expose your deps for editing (though not as easily as before): https://github.com/rogpeppe/gohack
In Using Go ModulesGo modules still allow for changes to local copies. You are not required to use a proxy to use modules. Also, you can always fork a public project and use a replace statement in a module to redirect an import path to your customized module. Check out this related tool: https://github.com/rogpeppe/gohack
In Go Modules in 2019> Even better, it lets you very easily drop into those dependencies and add minor changes or debugging lines if you need to. This can be incredibly useful if you're trying to understand how one of them works or think that that you might have found a bug and trying to verify or patch it.
You should totally check out Roger Peppe's gohack[1]
It enables you to do the same in a Go modules world
https://github.com/rogpeppe/gohack
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