banana

You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.

Obviously things don't just work. Therefore I need to understand them.

That's why I am pissed off. I don't intend to learn go and write code in that language myself. I just want to use a tool that happens to be written in that language and hasn't been packaged for my distribution yet. I wouldn't mind doing some research, possibly spending a day before actually being able to do anything, if I wanted to learn the language. But I don't and I don't really care what language this tool is written in.

And the sad think is that I wanted to use this tool because it could possibly solve the primary soul-crushing complication of my own package manager (borg for emacs). But I cannot even try it because the package manager of some other language is so utterly beginner hostile. My package manager at least is explicitly targeted at experts.

Try go get github.com/apenwarr/git-subtrac

Then cd $HOME/.local/share/go/src/github.com/apenwarr/git-subtrac && go build

Depending on $GOPATH it might be a different directory.

Disclaimer: Not a Go expert at all :)

Thanks. It works now with go get ... (provided I manually install the latest go).

[git-subtrac author here] Thanks for pointing me at this discussion. I'm not exactly a go expert either, and didn't know the difference between go get and go install (mostly that go install has only very recently learned how to download things, and it still finicky about it). I'll update the README to recommend go get instead.

git-subtrac is really new, so I apologize that the README doesn't yet answer the most common questions in the most useful way.

@apenwarr Thanks for the update!