Import a specific branch of a forked repo into Go code

go.mod

module github.com/<username>/<reponame>

go 1.19

require (
	github.com/<username>/pkg v0.7.0
)

// Order will matter here
replace github.com/<username>/pkg v0.7.0 => github.com/<username>/pkg v0.7.1

import_branch_from_fork.md

• Create a fork of the original repo
• Create a new branch
• Add modifications to the code
• Push branch into forked repo
• Tag this branch with version higher then original repo, e.g. if original repo had v0.7.0 then the tag v0.7.1 should be applied to the forked branch

  git tag -a v0.7.1
  git push origin v0.7.1
  

• Change go.mod file of my package to use replace directive and my new tag like in the following go.mod example: