importing private github module

[dire hare]

I made a golang library that i re-utilize commonly between my company projects, and the repository is of course private, ive been trying to import it from github directly like you often do for 3rd party libraries, but this doesnt work as i need git authentication, afaik go package manager uses git under the hood but even using GOPRIVATE env var and replacing gitconfig url with a x-auth-basic didnt work, any precise guide on how to effectively use private repositories as modules on both windows and linux?

importing private github module

[plush nimbus]

There are multiple ways to achieve this. Depends on how you are cloning your projects.

https://go.dev/ref/mod#private-module-proxy-auth

[warm karma]

Use ssh

https://gist.github.com/StevenACoffman/866b06ed943394fbacb60a45db5982f2

[dire hare]

i cant get it to work

ive added a new ssh keypair and added it to ssh agent but when cloning i get permission denied

i created the ssh key in my acc and the private repo is of my organization, maybe has something to do with that

[warm karma]

If you try to ssh into [email protected] what does it say

[plush nimbus]

Your git instead of configuration shouldn’t include your repo just

[email protected]:

[dire hare]

still doesnt work

i get this error

but i did add the ssh keys

[plush nimbus]

Did you try to clone the repository via ssh? Seems like something is wrong with your ssh config

[dire hare]

yes i did

and it clones just fine

[viscid nimbus]

this works for me

GOPRIVATE=github.com/githubUsername/reponName go get github.com/githubUsername/reponName

[dire hare]

you mean putting the go get in the goprivate variable?

because otherwise it doesnt work ive already tried

[viscid nimbus]

what did you get when you run this in your terminal

GOPRIVATE=github.com/githubUsername/reponName go get github.com/githubUsername/reponName

[dire hare]

wym in my terminal, thats not a command

its an env var... ?

[viscid nimbus]

yes i am aware , sorry this might be confusing but i developed the habit of setting the env variable like this in the terminal coz i have multiple private repos .
so i change the GOPRIVATE variable each time with different repo
long story short all you need to do is to type this in the terminal

GOPRIVATE=github.com/githubUsername/reponName go get github.com/githubUsername/reponName

go will see the GOPRIVATE as env variable and then it will import the private repo to your app.

assuming you're already configured git with the credentials needed to access your private repo

[dire hare]

are you on linux? on windows this isnt working

[viscid nimbus]

oh sorry yes i am on linux ,
try this
from your command prompt
set GOPRIVATE=github.com/githubUsername/repoName go get github.com/githubUsername/repoName
or
$env:GOPRIVATE = "github.com/githubUsername/repoName"
go get github.com/githubUsername/repoName
form powershell