Provide doc and/or script to circumvent golang.org blockage in China

[anthonyfok]

As reported in coderzh/gohugo.org#1 by a friend of mine in China, go get -v github.com/spf13/hugo fails to complete because golang.org, hence golang.org/x/text/transform and golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm used in hugo/helpers/path.go, are blocked in China. (Why? Beats me. Perhaps it is because golang.org is hosted on Google servers, and most Google servers are blocked in China nowadays?)

Using an overseas VPN is a way to circumvent the blockage, but thankfully, there is another way for Chinese netizens who do not have access to an overseas VPN, as suggested by Lars Seipel:

mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/golang.org/x
git clone https://github.com/golang/net $GOPATH/src/golang.org/x/net

Repeat the latter for all x repos. Do this once when setting up a new
machine for Go development, then just git pull for updates. It's maybe
not as nice as 'go get' but at least you don't need to change import
paths in other packages depending on the x repos.

(from http://grokbase.com/t/gg/golang-nuts/152cgxd8jh/go-nuts-golang-org-is-blocked-in-china)

And the good news? My friend from China tested it and reported: "This method works; a very good solution indeed."

So yes, this is a note-to-self to follow up by documenting it and probably writing a small bash script and/or MS-DOS / Windows batch file to automate the whole process, both the initial fetch and subsequent updating.

Cheers,
Anthony

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