In a software shop you really want to keep all your external dependecies in your local network to get them faster and more reliably. Copying external projects into your own repositories is called vendoring. Let’s vendor a github project into a gitlab project. Here is how to do it.

Let’s say you want to use github.com/foo/bar in your own package. Create third-party Gitlab group and import github.com/foo/bar to third-party/bar. Now you can use it this way:

import "your-gitlab.com/third-party/bar.git.git"

What’s the deal with the .git.git suffix? The second .git suffix tells go get that this is a git repository. Bug go get strips it so we have to specify the .git suffix twice.