I used to use `go get` for grabbing even non-Go repos but had to stop because of similar problems. I finally wrote a small tool to replace it I call `grab` https://github.com/jmhodges/grab to take over my "fetch the code and organize it into a tidy directory system" need
It actually uses the nice VCS library guts that `go get` does!
It actually uses the nice VCS library guts that `go get` does!