Commit f474885f authored by Russ Cox's avatar Russ Cox

cmd/go: document where get writes, and not vendor directories

Fixes #12260.

Change-Id: I95c27aad6de8064b9a205d4ee507bce75926f16d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/17948Reviewed-by: 's avatarBrad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
parent 8fac7e3c
......@@ -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
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......@@ -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
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