How to use Go with a private GitLab repo

Question

GitLab is a free, open-source way to host private .git repositories but it does not seem to work with Go. When you create a project it generates a URL of the fo

Answer 1

Gitlab does support go get natively.

go get will issue an http request to the url you provide and look for meta tags that point to the exact source control path.

For my gitlab installation this is mygitlabdomain.com/myProject/myRepo. For you I assume this would be 1.2.3.4/private-developers/project.

Unfortunately it only appears to give the http scm path, not the ssh path, so I had to enter my credentials to clone. You can easily fiddle with the remote in your local repository after it clones if you want to update to the ssh url.

You can test the url by poking http://1.2.3.4:private-developers/project?go-get=1 and viewing source and looking for the meta tag.