cmd/go: allow go get with arbitrary URLs
This CL permits using arbitrary, non-VCS-qualified URLs as aliases for fully VCS-qualified and/or well-known code hosting sites. Example 1) A VCS-qualified URL can now be shorter. Before: $ go get camlistore.org/r/p/camlistore.git/pkg/blobref After: $ go get camlistore.org/pkg/blobref Example 2) A custom domain can be used as the import, referencing a well-known code hosting site. Before: $ go get github.com/bradfitz/sonden After: $ go get bradfitz.com/pkg/sonden The mechanism used is a <meta> tag in the HTML document retrieved from fetching: https://<import>?go-get=1 (preferred) http://<import>?go-get=1 (fallback) The meta tag should look like: <meta name="go-import" content="import-alias-prefix vcs full-repo-root"> The full-repo-root must be a full URL root to a repository containing a scheme and *not* containing a ".vcs" qualifier. The vcs is one of "git", "hg", "svn", etc. The import-alias-prefix must be a prefix or exact match of the package being fetched with "go get". If there are multiple meta tags, only the one with a prefix matching the import path is used. It is an error if multiple go-import values match the import prefix. If the import-alias-prefix is not an exact match for the import, another HTTP fetch is performed, at the declared root (which does *not* need to be the domain's root). For example, assuming that "camlistore.org/pkg/blobref" declares in its HTML head: <meta name="go-import" content="camlistore.org git https://camlistore.org/r/p/camlistore" /> ... then: $ go get camlistore.org/pkg/blobref ... looks at the following URLs: https://camlistore.org/pkg/blobref?go-get=1 http://camlistore.org/pkg/blobref?go-get=1 https://camlistore.org/?go-get=1 http://camlistore.org/?go-get=1 Ultimately it finds, at the root (camlistore.org/), the same go-import: <meta name="go-import" content="camlistore.org git https://camlistore.org/r/p/camlistore" /> ... and proceeds to trust it, checking out git //camlistore.org/r/p/camlistore at the import path of "camlistore.org" on disk. Fixes #3099 R=r, rsc, gary.burd, eikeon, untheoretic, n13m3y3r, rsc CC=golang-dev https://golang.org/cl/5660051
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