goredirects

goredirects enables the use of a vanity redirect domain in your go package imports. For example, instead of using import "github.com/example/package" you could use a vanity domain, and import "example.com/package", yet still host the source code on GitHub.

by Andrew Brampton (bramp.net) (c) 2017-2026

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Specifically, this tool creates a set of HTML files containing the go-imports meta tags, for each of your projects. This uses the remote import paths feature of go get command to redirect from your vanity domain to GitHub.com.

Example

To create a set of static HTML redirects:

$ go install bramp.net/goredirects@latest

$ goredirects
Usage: goredirects [options] <domain> <input dir> <output dir>
  -git-remote string
    	Git remote name (default "origin")
  -include-vendor
    	Include vendor directory

$ goredirects bramp.net outputdir
# Looking under $GOROOT/src/bramp.net for all packages
...

This will search your $GOROOT/src/ for all packages, and create static HTML into the outputdir for each package.

To read more about how this tool works, checkout my blog article on the topic.

Developing

Before committing, please run:

make all

Updating test data

There are test git repos under test/input. Git forbides a .git directory to be checked in, so we put them all in a tar file, that is extracted during testing.

Extract the tar

tar -xvf test/input.tar.gz test/input

Create a new tar file:

find test/input -print0 | LC_ALL=C sort -z |
tar --no-recursion --null -T - \
    --no-xattrs \
    --no-recursion \
    --options '!timestamp' \
    -cvzf test/input.tar.gz

Licence (Apache 2)

This is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise), it is just code that happens to be owned by Google.

Copyright 2017 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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