Alternate location for constraints doesn't accept 'file://'

[hasufell]

Git perfectly supports cloning repositories from local directories. dep doesn't.

Gopkg.toml has the following contents:

[[constraint]]
  name = "github.com/someones/repo"
  branch = "testing"
  source = "file:///path/to/a/local/repo"

What version of dep are you using (dep version)?

v0.3.2-187-g5e8ecaa9

What dep command did you run?

dep ensure

What did you expect to see?

success

What did you see instead?

Solving failure: "file:///path/to/a/local/repo" is not a valid import path

[sdboyer]

hi! thanks for the issue.

unfortunately, this is an intentional design choice - for now. there's an explanation of the relevant considerations in #935 (comment) .

(closing as dup)