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diff --git a/src/cmd/go/internal/generate/generate.go b/src/cmd/go/internal/generate/generate.go
index 65e7148aa8..18d4a20952 100644
--- a/src/cmd/go/internal/generate/generate.go
+++ b/src/cmd/go/internal/generate/generate.go
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ Go generate sets several variables when it runs the generator:
generator, containing the Go toolchain and standard library.
$DOLLAR
A dollar sign.
+ $PATH
+ The $PATH of the parent process, with $GOROOT/bin
+ placed at the beginning. This causes generators
+ that execute 'go' commands to use the same 'go'
+ as the parent 'go generate' command.
Other than variable substitution and quoted-string evaluation, no
special processing such as "globbing" is performed on the command