Importing local changes of a package without pushing code in Golang

Question

I' am learning Golang now-a-days and a total newbie. I have a question regarding packages.

Consider the following scenario:

Imagine I have a package github.com/ilatif/A in which I' am importing another package github.com/ilatif/B, like:

import "github.com/ilatif/B"

Now since both github.com/ilatif/A and github.com/ilatif/B are my packages and I' am working locally on them, is there a way to pull changes from github.com/ilatif/B package without pushing code to GitHub? As per Golang's documentation, I need to push the code to its relevant repo but I was wondering if there is such a way to pull local changes of my own package without pushing it to upstream first.

Thanks

Answer 1

Go Module Solution

I could successfully use Golang with modules by using replace in the file go.mod.

https://thewebivore.com/using-replace-in-go-mod-to-point-to-your-local-module/

• As soon as you save the go.mod file with the replace statement, Goland recognizes the updated module.

Example

• Using replace MODULE_URL => /PATH/TO/MODULE/DIR
  • No need to specify the version

module github.x.com/services-x/x

go 1.13

require (
    github.com/briandowns/spinner v1.8.0
    github.com/golang/protobuf v1.3.1
    github.com/jinzhu/copier v0.0.0-20190625015134-976e0346caa8
    github.com/marcellodesales/cloner v0.0.0-20191126082454-c952bef1e067
    github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0
    github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure v1.1.2
    github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.2.0
    github.com/spf13/cobra v0.0.5
    github.com/spf13/viper v1.4.0
    github.com/thoas/go-funk v0.4.0
    gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4 v4.13.1
    gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.2
)

replace github.com/marcellodesales/cloner => /Users/mdesales/dev/github.com/marcellodesales/cloner