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

For the record, this works outside of go using gitlab 7.3.2 and, as JimB has observed, can be used as a workaround. I find that i do get prompted for username/password, even though an SSH key is registered with gitlab:

git clone http://1.2.3.4/private-developers/project.git

Alternatively i can use the SSH equivalent which, since i have an SSH key registered with gitlab, avoids the prompts:

git clone git@1.2.3.4:private-developers/project.git

Neither works with go currently. A fix may be in 7.9 but i haven't had a chance to test it: upcoming bugfix