Golang module replace directive equivalent in V?

[jorgeluismireles]

My problem

I started a golang project with several gitlab repos, some libraries and some apps. Since all the repos were public any repo could be imported as a library as usual. From app server.go:

package server
import (
   gitlab.com/username/protocol/defs
  ...
)

And in server repo we have a go.mod like this:

module gitlab.com/username/server
go 1.22.2
require (
    gitlab.com/username/protocol v0.0.0-2024-etc-etc
)

Then my employer request me to push all the code to private repositories so libraries could not be imported directly with go get or get mod tidy.

My solution

I finally use the replace directive in server app go.mod as follows:

module gitlab.com/username/server
go 1.22.2
replace (
    gitlab.com/username/protocol => ../protocol
)
require (
	gitlab.com/username/protocol v0.0.0
)

To use replace, the library now should be read from the filesystem and should be marked as version v0.0.0 (in require directive). This works offline if your code at your station is contigous:

gitlab.com
  '- username
       |- protocol
       |- server
       |    '- go.mod <- with replace directive   
       '- client

Question 1

What approach is recommended in big V projects and with private repos?

Question 2

In go if your repo is called gitlab.com/username/protocol-inputs and you imported, within the code you could access the path with only inputs without protocol part, as an automatic alias. Example:

package server
import "gitlab.com/username/protocol-inputs"
func main() {
     inputs.Debug() // inputs not protocol-inputs
}

Similarly if your repo is defined as github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 v2.6.0 it'll be accessible only with tcell without any version.
Is an equivalent of modules stripped by dashes and versions?

Thanks in advance.