如果我想对派生的存储库进行更改而仅仅因为发现我不能因为派生的包本身导入而不能做该怎么办

Question

Like this github repository, I forked the repository and made some changes to the code. When I run it, my changes are not in effect because the original code imports itself. I could simply just change the import library to mine like "import github.com/brucewangno1/ytdl". But is there any other clean way to avoid this?

Answer 1

When working with golang forks of a repo, try and work in the import path of the original repo, and update the tooling to use your forked repo.

What I mean is, if you have forked the project github.com/rylio/ytdl/ to your own github account github.com/brucewangno1/ytdl

Then you might have a gopath such as:

$GOPATH/src/github.com
├── rylio
│   └── ytdl
└── brucewangno1
    └── ytdl

You should make changes in the directory $GOPATH/src/github.com/rylio/ytdl.

To add the changes to your forked repo, you can set another origin in git, inside your local clone of rylio/ytdl

git remote add fork [e-mail]1/tydl.git

If you do not plan on merging changes back into the upstream repo, you can use tools such as dep to ensure that you pull your own fork of that project instead of the upstream one. Something like:

[[constraint]]
name = "github.com/c/d
source = "https://github.com/myusername/d.git"