What’s the proper way to “go get” a private repository?

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You have one thing to configure. The example is based on GitHub but this shouldn’t change the process:

$ git config --global url.git@github.com:.insteadOf https://github.com/
$ cat ~/.gitconfig
[url "git@github.com:"]
    insteadOf = https://github.com/
$ go get github.com/private/repo

For Go modules to work (with Go 1.11 or newer), you’ll also need to set the GOPRIVATE variable, to avoid using the public servers to fetch the code:

export GOPRIVATE=github.com/private/repo

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