Commit 8655f04d authored by Andrew Gerrand's avatar Andrew Gerrand

doc: propose $GOPATH as $HOME/work, not $HOME/go

Related to issue #9228

Change-Id: I0819e657f6393788754d1412f9c2126a170d4cf1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/1577Reviewed-by: 's avatarRob Pike <r@golang.org>
parent 3185f862
......@@ -108,13 +108,14 @@ when developing Go code.
<p>
To get started, create a workspace directory and set <code>GOPATH</code>
accordingly. Your workspace can be located wherever you like, but we'll use
<code>$HOME/go</code> in this document. Note that this must <b>not</b> be the
<code>$HOME/work</code> in this document. Note that this must <b>not</b> be the
same path as your Go installation.
(Another common setup is to set <code>GOPATH=$HOME</code>.)
</p>
<pre>
$ <b>mkdir $HOME/go</b>
$ <b>export GOPATH=$HOME/go</b>
$ <b>mkdir $HOME/work</b>
$ <b>export GOPATH=$HOME/work</b>
</pre>
<p>
......@@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ This command builds the <code>hello</code> command, producing an executable
binary. It then installs that binary to the workspace's <code>bin</code>
directory as <code>hello</code> (or, under Windows, <code>hello.exe</code>).
In our example, that will be <code>$GOPATH/bin/hello</code>, which is
<code>$HOME/go/bin/hello</code>.
<code>$HOME/work/bin/hello</code>.
</p>
<p>
......@@ -254,7 +255,7 @@ optional: you do not need to use source control to write Go code.
<pre>
$ <b>cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/user/hello</b>
$ <b>git init</b>
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/go/src/github.com/user/hello/.git/
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/work/src/github.com/user/hello/.git/
$ <b>git add hello.go</b>
$ <b>git commit -m "initial commit"</b>
[master (root-commit) 0b4507d] initial commit
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