This is (sadly) why gopkg.in [1] exists. It proxies Git repositories, mapping: gopkg.in/mypackage.v3 -> github.com/go-mypackage/mypackage gopkg.in/bob

This is (sadly) why gopkg.in [1] exists. It proxies Git repositories, mapping: gopkg.in/mypackage.v3 -> github.com/go-mypackage/mypackage gopkg.in/bob/mypackage.v3 -> github.com/bob/mypackage ...where v3 is a branch or tag named v3, v3.N or v3.N.M. What Go needs is a real package manager that uses the new 1.5 vendor directory to manage dependencies. There have been some attempts (godep, gb), but they aren't very good, especially if you look at how existing languages have solved this (Ruby's Bundler, Rust's Cargo). [1] https://gopkg.in https://gopkg.in