Using forked package import in Go

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If you are using go modules. You could use replace directive

The replace directive allows you to supply another import path that might
be another module located in VCS (GitHub or elsewhere), or on your
local filesystem with a relative or absolute file path. The new import
path from the replace directive is used without needing to update the
import paths in the actual source code.

So you could do below in your go.mod file

module some-project

go 1.12

require (
    github.com/someone/repo v1.20.0
)

replace github.com/someone/repo => github.com/you/repo v3.2.1

where v3.2.1 is tag on your repo. Also can be done through CLI

go mod edit -replace="github.com/someone/[email protected]=github.com/you/[email protected]"

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