Using Azure DevOps for Private Go Modules
TL;DR
This took a few hours of work to iron out, so figured maybe I’d save someone time.
⚡ Just keep it simple and use SSH
⚡ Use dev.azure.com
even if using older project.visualstudio.com
to keep things simple.
Modules Support
Unlike GitHub, Azure DevOps has some quirks to deal with, specifically in the odd path handling.
My original goal was to set the default handling to be https
support, with the SSH override in git config allowing me to use SSH.
This didn’t work.
- HTTPS requires
_git
in the path. - SSH will not work with that, and also trims out the org name in the url when git config set based on instructions from Microsoft1.
There is a long-running issue with go get imports of Azure DevOps repositories due to the fact that the HTTPS URL contains a
_git
segment: 2
Compare the path.
Type | Path |
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HTTPS | go get dev.azure.com/<organization>/<project>/_git/<repo> |
⚡ What I used with SSH | go get dev.azure.com/<project>/_git/<repo> |
SSH | go get dev.azure.com/<organization>/<project>/<repo>.git |
Git Config
Set this in your .profile, .bashrc, or $PROFILE
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There are two approaches you can take.
One seems focused on allowing other dev.azure.com
public projects to be used.
I’ve never had that need, so I’m ok with my dev.azure.com
references being resolved only to my own organization.
Type | Command | GitConfig |
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Support All Azure DevOps (Public) | git config --global url."[email protected]:v3/<organization>/".insteadOf "https://dev.azure.com/<organization>" |
[url "[email protected]:v3"]<br/> insteadOf = https://dev.azure.com |
⚡ What I Used for Private Org | git config --global url."[email protected]:v3/<organization>/".insteadOf "https://dev.azure.com/ |
[url "[email protected]:v3/<organization>/"] insteadOf = https://dev.azure.com/ |
import "dev.azure.com/<project>/repo.git/subdirectory"
HTTPS
If you don’t have restrictions on this, then you can do https with the following command to add the token in or use a more complex credential manager based process.
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Azure Pipelines
If you run into timeout issues with go get
, I found this solution worked well.
I provided ORGANIZATION
as a value if you are on the legacy url scheme, it’s easier to just set this as variable and not worry about parsing out the org name itself from the url to place it in there.
I got stuck on this recently and was pointed to the answer in this great article Using Go Modules With Private Azure Devops Repositories.
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