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| author | Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> | 2015-12-17 01:00:14 -0500 |
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| committer | Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> | 2015-12-17 17:00:02 +0000 |
| commit | f474885f8a44d3c00e2f11315628fa80fda9404c (patch) | |
| tree | 3cc4d463d65588cda8125a68e19f30c4cee7faba | |
| parent | 8fac7e3cc7b69211267d5a2e3c08b0f5cd4c46f9 (diff) | |
| download | go-f474885f8a44d3c00e2f11315628fa80fda9404c.tar.gz go-f474885f8a44d3c00e2f11315628fa80fda9404c.zip | |
cmd/go: document where get writes, and not vendor directories
Fixes #12260.
Change-Id: I95c27aad6de8064b9a205d4ee507bce75926f16d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/17948
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | src/cmd/go/alldocs.go | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/cmd/go/get.go | 6 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go b/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go index 6fe2b9e2b4..96aed49ee2 100644 --- a/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go +++ b/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go @@ -497,6 +497,10 @@ missing packages but does not use it to look for updates to existing packages. Get also accepts build flags to control the installation. See 'go help build'. +When checking out a new package, get creates the target directory +GOPATH/src/<import-path>. If the GOPATH contains multiple entries, +get uses the first one. See 'go help gopath'. + When checking out or updating a package, get looks for a branch or tag that matches the locally installed version of Go. The most important rule is that if the local installation is running version "go1", get @@ -507,6 +511,8 @@ Unless vendoring support is disabled (see 'go help gopath'), when go get checks out or updates a Git repository, it also updates any git submodules referenced by the repository. +Get never checks out or updates code stored in vendor directories. + For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. For more about how 'go get' finds source code to diff --git a/src/cmd/go/get.go b/src/cmd/go/get.go index d97afb90de..a298049a9d 100644 --- a/src/cmd/go/get.go +++ b/src/cmd/go/get.go @@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ missing packages but does not use it to look for updates to existing packages. Get also accepts build flags to control the installation. See 'go help build'. +When checking out a new package, get creates the target directory +GOPATH/src/<import-path>. If the GOPATH contains multiple entries, +get uses the first one. See 'go help gopath'. + When checking out or updating a package, get looks for a branch or tag that matches the locally installed version of Go. The most important rule is that if the local installation is running version "go1", get @@ -55,6 +59,8 @@ Unless vendoring support is disabled (see 'go help gopath'), when go get checks out or updates a Git repository, it also updates any git submodules referenced by the repository. +Get never checks out or updates code stored in vendor directories. + For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. For more about how 'go get' finds source code to |