通过多个软件包为项目做出贡献

Question

I'm trying to add a fake broker/backend for testing purpose to machinery, which is a task queue library in #golang.

All import paths are absolute in that project,

import "github.com/RichardKnop/machinery/v1/..."

However, to include my changes, I have to

• manually modify those import paths to my fork
  • (replace "RichardKnop" with my username),
• test my changes, and
• revert those import paths to owner's fork before making a pull
  request.

Is there any suggestion on how to contribute others' forks without manually modifying import paths?

Answer 1

Just add another remote to the original git repository. Something like:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/RichardKnop/machinery
git remote add myfork [e-mail]:missionliao/machinery.git
git checkout -b master myfork/master

Go is just looking for source code in folders so the folder and its actual git location don't have to match.