This is an issue that should be resolved by @rsc. Ian Lance Taylor has asked me to create an issue for this:

Please open an issue for this at https://golang.org/issue . Thanks.

I am following up with one remaining step that should be done by @rsc for a merged CL https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/12192/. This is really really minor cleanup issue, but it should not take more than 1 minute for @rsc to resolve (and I just want to get it checked off from my TODO list).

I will quote the CL conversation here for context:

Dmitri Shuralyov

Just in case it's at all helpful, I've rewritten the history as it
should be with new import paths ("github.com/rsc/go-get-issue-9224-{cmd,lib}")
and pushed that on "rsc-import-paths" branches:
https://github.com/shurcooL/go-get-test-cmd/commits/rsc-import-paths
https://github.com/shurcooL/go-get-test-lib/commits/rsc-import-paths

Russ Cox

Just in case it's at all helpful, I've rewritten the history as it
should be with new import paths ("github.com/rsc/go-get-issue-9224-{cmd,lib}")
and pushed that on "rsc-import-paths" branches:
https://github.com/shurcooL/go-get-test-cmd/commits/rsc-import-paths
https://github.com/shurcooL/go-get-test-lib/commits/rsc-import-paths

Thanks. Pushed those.

Dmitri Shuralyov

Pushed those.

https://github.com/rsc/go-get-issue-9224-lib looks good.

But https://github.com/rsc/go-get-issue-9224-cmd still has the wrong default branch "work". Its "master" branch should be set default (in GitHub repo settings at https://github.com/rsc/go-get-issue-9224-cmd/settings) and "work" branch can be deleted.

Dmitri Shuralyov

Just checking in here, the above followup step is still not done.

Issue and Resolution

The issue is that Russ Cox has pushed the changes to the repo, but the branch he pushed to is not the default branch.

The resolution, as I commented above, is:

But https://github.com/rsc/go-get-issue-9224-cmd still has the wrong default branch "work". Its "master" branch should be set default (in GitHub repo settings at https://github.com/rsc/go-get-issue-9224-cmd/settings) and "work" branch can be deleted.

Note that go get ignores the default branch set on GitHub, so master is used anyway. But it can be confusing to see the wrong default branch in the github repo.