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To embed spaces in an element in the list, surround // it with either single or double quotes. The argument list may be // preceded by a package pattern and an equal sign, which restricts // the use of that argument list to the building of packages matching // that pattern (see 'go help packages' for a description of package // patterns). Without a pattern, the argument list applies only to the // packages named on the command line. The flags may be repeated // with different patterns in order to specify different arguments for // different sets of packages. If a package matches patterns given in // multiple flags, the latest match on the command line wins. // For example, 'go build -gcflags=-S fmt' prints the disassembly // only for package fmt, while 'go build -gcflags=all=-S fmt' // prints the disassembly for fmt and all its dependencies. // // For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. // For more about where packages and binaries are installed, // run 'go help gopath'. // For more about calling between Go and C/C++, run 'go help c'. // // Note: Build adheres to certain conventions such as those described // by 'go help gopath'. Not all projects can follow these conventions, // however. Installations that have their own conventions or that use // a separate software build system may choose to use lower-level // invocations such as 'go tool compile' and 'go tool link' to avoid // some of the overheads and design decisions of the build tool. // // See also: go install, go get, go clean. // // // Remove object files and cached files // // Usage: // // go clean [clean flags] [build flags] [packages] // // Clean removes object files from package source directories. // The go command builds most objects in a temporary directory, // so go clean is mainly concerned with object files left by other // tools or by manual invocations of go build. // // If a package argument is given or the -i or -r flag is set, // clean removes the following files from each of the // source directories corresponding to the import paths: // // _obj/ old object directory, left from Makefiles // _test/ old test directory, left from Makefiles // _testmain.go old gotest file, left from Makefiles // test.out old test log, left from Makefiles // build.out old test log, left from Makefiles // *.[568ao] object files, left from Makefiles // // DIR(.exe) from go build // DIR.test(.exe) from go test -c // MAINFILE(.exe) from go build MAINFILE.go // *.so from SWIG // // In the list, DIR represents the final path element of the // directory, and MAINFILE is the base name of any Go source // file in the directory that is not included when building // the package. // // The -i flag causes clean to remove the corresponding installed // archive or binary (what 'go install' would create). // // The -n flag causes clean to print the remove commands it would execute, // but not run them. // // The -r flag causes clean to be applied recursively to all the // dependencies of the packages named by the import paths. // // The -x flag causes clean to print remove commands as it executes them. // // The -cache flag causes clean to remove the entire go build cache. // // The -testcache flag causes clean to expire all test results in the // go build cache. // // The -modcache flag causes clean to remove the entire module // download cache, including unpacked source code of versioned // dependencies. // // The -fuzzcache flag causes clean to remove files stored in the Go build // cache for fuzz testing. The fuzzing engine caches files that expand // code coverage, so removing them may make fuzzing less effective until // new inputs are found that provide the same coverage. These files are // distinct from those stored in testdata directory; clean does not remove // those files. // // For more about build flags, see 'go help build'. // // For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. // // // Show documentation for package or symbol // // Usage: // // go doc [doc flags] [package|[package.]symbol[.methodOrField]] // // Doc prints the documentation comments associated with the item identified by its // arguments (a package, const, func, type, var, method, or struct field) // followed by a one-line summary of each of the first-level items "under" // that item (package-level declarations for a package, methods for a type, // etc.). // // Doc accepts zero, one, or two arguments. // // Given no arguments, that is, when run as // // go doc // // it prints the package documentation for the package in the current directory. // If the package is a command (package main), the exported symbols of the package // are elided from the presentation unless the -cmd flag is provided. // // When run with one argument, the argument is treated as a Go-syntax-like // representation of the item to be documented. What the argument selects depends // on what is installed in GOROOT and GOPATH, as well as the form of the argument, // which is schematically one of these: // // go doc // go doc [.] // go doc [.][.] // go doc [.][.] // // The first item in this list matched by the argument is the one whose documentation // is printed. (See the examples below.) However, if the argument starts with a capital // letter it is assumed to identify a symbol or method in the current directory. // // For packages, the order of scanning is determined lexically in breadth-first order. // That is, the package presented is the one that matches the search and is nearest // the root and lexically first at its level of the hierarchy. The GOROOT tree is // always scanned in its entirety before GOPATH. // // If there is no package specified or matched, the package in the current // directory is selected, so "go doc Foo" shows the documentation for symbol Foo in // the current package. // // The package path must be either a qualified path or a proper suffix of a // path. The go tool's usual package mechanism does not apply: package path // elements like . and ... are not implemented by go doc. // // When run with two arguments, the first is a package path (full path or suffix), // and the second is a symbol, or symbol with method or struct field: // // go doc [.] // // In all forms, when matching symbols, lower-case letters in the argument match // either case but upper-case letters match exactly. This means that there may be // multiple matches of a lower-case argument in a package if different symbols have // different cases. If this occurs, documentation for all matches is printed. // // Examples: // go doc // Show documentation for current package. // go doc Foo // Show documentation for Foo in the current package. // (Foo starts with a capital letter so it cannot match // a package path.) // go doc encoding/json // Show documentation for the encoding/json package. // go doc json // Shorthand for encoding/json. // go doc json.Number (or go doc json.number) // Show documentation and method summary for json.Number. // go doc json.Number.Int64 (or go doc json.number.int64) // Show documentation for json.Number's Int64 method. // go doc cmd/doc // Show package docs for the doc command. // go doc -cmd cmd/doc // Show package docs and exported symbols within the doc command. // go doc template.new // Show documentation for html/template's New function. // (html/template is lexically before text/template) // go doc text/template.new # One argument // Show documentation for text/template's New function. // go doc text/template new # Two arguments // Show documentation for text/template's New function. // // At least in the current tree, these invocations all print the // documentation for json.Decoder's Decode method: // // go doc json.Decoder.Decode // go doc json.decoder.decode // go doc json.decode // cd go/src/encoding/json; go doc decode // // Flags: // -all // Show all the documentation for the package. // -c // Respect case when matching symbols. // -cmd // Treat a command (package main) like a regular package. // Otherwise package main's exported symbols are hidden // when showing the package's top-level documentation. // -short // One-line representation for each symbol. // -src // Show the full source code for the symbol. This will // display the full Go source of its declaration and // definition, such as a function definition (including // the body), type declaration or enclosing const // block. The output may therefore include unexported // details. // -u // Show documentation for unexported as well as exported // symbols, methods, and fields. // // // Print Go environment information // // Usage: // // go env [-json] [-u] [-w] [var ...] // // Env prints Go environment information. // // By default env prints information as a shell script // (on Windows, a batch file). If one or more variable // names is given as arguments, env prints the value of // each named variable on its own line. // // The -json flag prints the environment in JSON format // instead of as a shell script. // // The -u flag requires one or more arguments and unsets // the default setting for the named environment variables, // if one has been set with 'go env -w'. // // The -w flag requires one or more arguments of the // form NAME=VALUE and changes the default settings // of the named environment variables to the given values. // // For more about environment variables, see 'go help environment'. // // // Update packages to use new APIs // // Usage: // // go fix [-fix list] [packages] // // Fix runs the Go fix command on the packages named by the import paths. // // The -fix flag sets a comma-separated list of fixes to run. // The default is all known fixes. // (Its value is passed to 'go tool fix -r'.) // // For more about fix, see 'go doc cmd/fix'. // For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. // // To run fix with other options, run 'go tool fix'. // // See also: go fmt, go vet. // // // Gofmt (reformat) package sources // // Usage: // // go fmt [-n] [-x] [packages] // // Fmt runs the command 'gofmt -l -w' on the packages named // by the import paths. It prints the names of the files that are modified. // // For more about gofmt, see 'go doc cmd/gofmt'. // For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. // // The -n flag prints commands that would be executed. // The -x flag prints commands as they are executed. // // The -mod flag's value sets which module download mode // to use: readonly or vendor. See 'go help modules' for more. // // To run gofmt with specific options, run gofmt itself. // // See also: go fix, go vet. // // // Generate Go files by processing source // // Usage: // // go generate [-run regexp] [-n] [-v] [-x] [build flags] [file.go... | packages] // // Generate runs commands described by directives within existing // files. Those commands can run any process but the intent is to // create or update Go source files. // // Go generate is never run automatically by go build, go test, // and so on. It must be run explicitly. // // Go generate scans the file for directives, which are lines of // the form, // // //go:generate command argument... // // (note: no leading spaces and no space in "//go") where command // is the generator to be run, corresponding to an executable file // that can be run locally. It must either be in the shell path // (gofmt), a fully qualified path (/usr/you/bin/mytool), or a // command alias, described below. // // Note that go generate does not parse the file, so lines that look // like directives in comments or multiline strings will be treated // as directives. // // The arguments to the directive are space-separated tokens or // double-quoted strings passed to the generator as individual // arguments when it is run. // // Quoted strings use Go syntax and are evaluated before execution; a // quoted string appears as a single argument to the generator. // // To convey to humans and machine tools that code is generated, // generated source should have a line that matches the following // regular expression (in Go syntax): // // ^// Code generated .* DO NOT EDIT\.$ // // This line must appear before the first non-comment, non-blank // text in the file. // // Go generate sets several variables when it runs the generator: // // $GOARCH // The execution architecture (arm, amd64, etc.) // $GOOS // The execution operating system (linux, windows, etc.) // $GOFILE // The base name of the file. // $GOLINE // The line number of the directive in the source file. // $GOPACKAGE // The name of the package of the file containing the directive. // $DOLLAR // A dollar sign. // // Other than variable substitution and quoted-string evaluation, no // special processing such as "globbing" is performed on the command // line. // // As a last step before running the command, any invocations of any // environment variables with alphanumeric names, such as $GOFILE or // $HOME, are expanded throughout the command line. The syntax for // variable expansion is $NAME on all operating systems. Due to the // order of evaluation, variables are expanded even inside quoted // strings. If the variable NAME is not set, $NAME expands to the // empty string. // // A directive of the form, // // //go:generate -command xxx args... // // specifies, for the remainder of this source file only, that the // string xxx represents the command identified by the arguments. This // can be used to create aliases or to handle multiword generators. // For example, // // //go:generate -command foo go tool foo // // specifies that the command "foo" represents the generator // "go tool foo". // // Generate processes packages in the order given on the command line, // one at a time. If the command line lists .go files from a single directory, // they are treated as a single package. Within a package, generate processes the // source files in a package in file name order, one at a time. Within // a source file, generate runs generators in the order they appear // in the file, one at a time. The go generate tool also sets the build // tag "generate" so that files may be examined by go generate but ignored // during build. // // For packages with invalid code, generate processes only source files with a // valid package clause. // // If any generator returns an error exit status, "go generate" skips // all further processing for that package. // // The generator is run in the package's source directory. // // Go generate accepts one specific flag: // // -run="" // if non-empty, specifies a regular expression to select // directives whose full original source text (excluding // any trailing spaces and final newline) matches the // expression. // // It also accepts the standard build flags including -v, -n, and -x. // The -v flag prints the names of packages and files as they are // processed. // The -n flag prints commands that would be executed. // The -x flag prints commands as they are executed. // // For more about build flags, see 'go help build'. // // For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. // // // Add dependencies to current module and install them // // Usage: // // go get [-t] [-u] [-v] [build flags] [packages] // // Get resolves its command-line arguments to packages at specific module versions, // updates go.mod to require those versions, and downloads source code into the // module cache. // // To add a dependency for a package or upgrade it to its latest version: // // go get example.com/pkg // // To upgrade or downgrade a package to a specific version: // // go get example.com/pkg@v1.2.3 // // To remove a dependency on a module and downgrade modules that require it: // // go get example.com/mod@none // // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-get for details. // // In earlier versions of Go, 'go get' was used to build and install packages. // Now, 'go get' is dedicated to adjusting dependencies in go.mod. 'go install' // may be used to build and install commands instead. When a version is specified, // 'go install' runs in module-aware mode and ignores the go.mod file in the // current directory. For example: // // go install example.com/pkg@v1.2.3 // go install example.com/pkg@latest // // See 'go help install' or https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-install for details. // // 'go get' accepts the following flags. // // The -t flag instructs get to consider modules needed to build tests of // packages specified on the command line. // // The -u flag instructs get to update modules providing dependencies // of packages named on the command line to use newer minor or patch // releases when available. // // The -u=patch flag (not -u patch) also instructs get to update dependencies, // but changes the default to select patch releases. // // When the -t and -u flags are used together, get will update // test dependencies as well. // // The -x flag prints commands as they are executed. This is useful for // debugging version control commands when a module is downloaded directly // from a repository. // // For more about modules, see https://golang.org/ref/mod. // // For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. // // This text describes the behavior of get using modules to manage source // code and dependencies. If instead the go command is running in GOPATH // mode, the details of get's flags and effects change, as does 'go help get'. // See 'go help gopath-get'. // // See also: go build, go install, go clean, go mod. // // // Compile and install packages and dependencies // // Usage: // // go install [build flags] [packages] // // Install compiles and installs the packages named by the import paths. // // Executables are installed in the directory named by the GOBIN environment // variable, which defaults to $GOPATH/bin or $HOME/go/bin if the GOPATH // environment variable is not set. Executables in $GOROOT // are installed in $GOROOT/bin or $GOTOOLDIR instead of $GOBIN. // // If the arguments have version suffixes (like @latest or @v1.0.0), "go install" // builds packages in module-aware mode, ignoring the go.mod file in the current // directory or any parent directory, if there is one. This is useful for // installing executables without affecting the dependencies of the main module. // To eliminate ambiguity about which module versions are used in the build, the // arguments must satisfy the following constraints: // // - Arguments must be package paths or package patterns (with "..." wildcards). // They must not be standard packages (like fmt), meta-patterns (std, cmd, // all), or relative or absolute file paths. // // - All arguments must have the same version suffix. Different queries are not // allowed, even if they refer to the same version. // // - All arguments must refer to packages in the same module at the same version. // // - Package path arguments must refer to main packages. Pattern arguments // will only match main packages. // // - No module is considered the "main" module. If the module containing // packages named on the command line has a go.mod file, it must not contain // directives (replace and exclude) that would cause it to be interpreted // differently than if it were the main module. The module must not require // a higher version of itself. // // - Vendor directories are not used in any module. (Vendor directories are not // included in the module zip files downloaded by 'go install'.) // // If the arguments don't have version suffixes, "go install" may run in // module-aware mode or GOPATH mode, depending on the GO111MODULE environment // variable and the presence of a go.mod file. See 'go help modules' for details. // If module-aware mode is enabled, "go install" runs in the context of the main // module. // // When module-aware mode is disabled, other packages are installed in the // directory $GOPATH/pkg/$GOOS_$GOARCH. When module-aware mode is enabled, // other packages are built and cached but not installed. // // The -i flag installs the dependencies of the named packages as well. // The -i flag is deprecated. Compiled packages are cached automatically. // // For more about the build flags, see 'go help build'. // For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. // // See also: go build, go get, go clean. // // // List packages or modules // // Usage: // // go list [-f format] [-json] [-m] [list flags] [build flags] [packages] // // List lists the named packages, one per line. // The most commonly-used flags are -f and -json, which control the form // of the output printed for each package. Other list flags, documented below, // control more specific details. // // The default output shows the package import path: // // bytes // encoding/json // github.com/gorilla/mux // golang.org/x/net/html // // The -f flag specifies an alternate format for the list, using the // syntax of package template. The default output is equivalent // to -f '{{.ImportPath}}'. The struct being passed to the template is: // // type Package struct { // Dir string // directory containing package sources // ImportPath string // import path of package in dir // ImportComment string // path in import comment on package statement // Name string // package name // Doc string // package documentation string // Target string // install path // Shlib string // the shared library that contains this package (only set when -linkshared) // Goroot bool // is this package in the Go root? // Standard bool // is this package part of the standard Go library? // Stale bool // would 'go install' do anything for this package? // StaleReason string // explanation for Stale==true // Root string // Go root or Go path dir containing this package // ConflictDir string // this directory shadows Dir in $GOPATH // BinaryOnly bool // binary-only package (no longer supported) // ForTest string // package is only for use in named test // Export string // file containing export data (when using -export) // BuildID string // build ID of the compiled package (when using -export) // Module *Module // info about package's containing module, if any (can be nil) // Match []string // command-line patterns matching this package // DepOnly bool // package is only a dependency, not explicitly listed // // // Source files // GoFiles []string // .go source files (excluding CgoFiles, TestGoFiles, XTestGoFiles) // CgoFiles []string // .go source files that import "C" // CompiledGoFiles []string // .go files presented to compiler (when using -compiled) // IgnoredGoFiles []string // .go source files ignored due to build constraints // IgnoredOtherFiles []string // non-.go source files ignored due to build constraints // CFiles []string // .c source files // CXXFiles []string // .cc, .cxx and .cpp source files // MFiles []string // .m source files // HFiles []string // .h, .hh, .hpp and .hxx source files // FFiles []string // .f, .F, .for and .f90 Fortran source files // SFiles []string // .s source files // SwigFiles []string // .swig files // SwigCXXFiles []string // .swigcxx files // SysoFiles []string // .syso object files to add to archive // TestGoFiles []string // _test.go files in package // XTestGoFiles []string // _test.go files outside package // // // Embedded files // EmbedPatterns []string // //go:embed patterns // EmbedFiles []string // files matched by EmbedPatterns // TestEmbedPatterns []string // //go:embed patterns in TestGoFiles // TestEmbedFiles []string // files matched by TestEmbedPatterns // XTestEmbedPatterns []string // //go:embed patterns in XTestGoFiles // XTestEmbedFiles []string // files matched by XTestEmbedPatterns // // // Cgo directives // CgoCFLAGS []string // cgo: flags for C compiler // CgoCPPFLAGS []string // cgo: flags for C preprocessor // CgoCXXFLAGS []string // cgo: flags for C++ compiler // CgoFFLAGS []string // cgo: flags for Fortran compiler // CgoLDFLAGS []string // cgo: flags for linker // CgoPkgConfig []string // cgo: pkg-config names // // // Dependency information // Imports []string // import paths used by this package // ImportMap map[string]string // map from source import to ImportPath (identity entries omitted) // Deps []string // all (recursively) imported dependencies // TestImports []string // imports from TestGoFiles // XTestImports []string // imports from XTestGoFiles // // // Error information // Incomplete bool // this package or a dependency has an error // Error *PackageError // error loading package // DepsErrors []*PackageError // errors loading dependencies // } // // Packages stored in vendor directories report an ImportPath that includes the // path to the vendor directory (for example, "d/vendor/p" instead of "p"), // so that the ImportPath uniquely identifies a given copy of a package. // The Imports, Deps, TestImports, and XTestImports lists also contain these // expanded import paths. See golang.org/s/go15vendor for more about vendoring. // // The error information, if any, is // // type PackageError struct { // ImportStack []string // shortest path from package named on command line to this one // Pos string // position of error (if present, file:line:col) // Err string // the error itself // } // // The module information is a Module struct, defined in the discussion // of list -m below. // // The template function "join" calls strings.Join. // // The template function "context" returns the build context, defined as: // // type Context struct { // GOARCH string // target architecture // GOOS string // target operating system // GOROOT string // Go root // GOPATH string // Go path // CgoEnabled bool // whether cgo can be used // UseAllFiles bool // use files regardless of +build lines, file names // Compiler string // compiler to assume when computing target paths // BuildTags []string // build constraints to match in +build lines // ToolTags []string // toolchain-specific build constraints // ReleaseTags []string // releases the current release is compatible with // InstallSuffix string // suffix to use in the name of the install dir // } // // For more information about the meaning of these fields see the documentation // for the go/build package's Context type. // // The -json flag causes the package data to be printed in JSON format // instead of using the template format. // // The -compiled flag causes list to set CompiledGoFiles to the Go source // files presented to the compiler. Typically this means that it repeats // the files listed in GoFiles and then also adds the Go code generated // by processing CgoFiles and SwigFiles. The Imports list contains the // union of all imports from both GoFiles and CompiledGoFiles. // // The -deps flag causes list to iterate over not just the named packages // but also all their dependencies. It visits them in a depth-first post-order // traversal, so that a package is listed only after all its dependencies. // Packages not explicitly listed on the command line will have the DepOnly // field set to true. // // The -e flag changes the handling of erroneous packages, those that // cannot be found or are malformed. By default, the list command // prints an error to standard error for each erroneous package and // omits the packages from consideration during the usual printing. // With the -e flag, the list command never prints errors to standard // error and instead processes the erroneous packages with the usual // printing. Erroneous packages will have a non-empty ImportPath and // a non-nil Error field; other information may or may not be missing // (zeroed). // // The -export flag causes list to set the Export field to the name of a // file containing up-to-date export information for the given package. // // The -find flag causes list to identify the named packages but not // resolve their dependencies: the Imports and Deps lists will be empty. // // The -test flag causes list to report not only the named packages // but also their test binaries (for packages with tests), to convey to // source code analysis tools exactly how test binaries are constructed. // The reported import path for a test binary is the import path of // the package followed by a ".test" suffix, as in "math/rand.test". // When building a test, it is sometimes necessary to rebuild certain // dependencies specially for that test (most commonly the tested // package itself). The reported import path of a package recompiled // for a particular test binary is followed by a space and the name of // the test binary in brackets, as in "math/rand [math/rand.test]" // or "regexp [sort.test]". The ForTest field is also set to the name // of the package being tested ("math/rand" or "sort" in the previous // examples). // // The Dir, Target, Shlib, Root, ConflictDir, and Export file paths // are all absolute paths. // // By default, the lists GoFiles, CgoFiles, and so on hold names of files in Dir // (that is, paths relative to Dir, not absolute paths). // The generated files added when using the -compiled and -test flags // are absolute paths referring to cached copies of generated Go source files. // Although they are Go source files, the paths may not end in ".go". // // The -m flag causes list to list modules instead of packages. // // When listing modules, the -f flag still specifies a format template // applied to a Go struct, but now a Module struct: // // type Module struct { // Path string // module path // Version string // module version // Versions []string // available module versions (with -versions) // Replace *Module // replaced by this module // Time *time.Time // time version was created // Update *Module // available update, if any (with -u) // Main bool // is this the main module? // Indirect bool // is this module only an indirect dependency of main module? // Dir string // directory holding files for this module, if any // GoMod string // path to go.mod file used when loading this module, if any // GoVersion string // go version used in module // Retracted string // retraction information, if any (with -retracted or -u) // Error *ModuleError // error loading module // } // // type ModuleError struct { // Err string // the error itself // } // // The file GoMod refers to may be outside the module directory if the // module is in the module cache or if the -modfile flag is used. // // The default output is to print the module path and then // information about the version and replacement if any. // For example, 'go list -m all' might print: // // my/main/module // golang.org/x/text v0.3.0 => /tmp/text // rsc.io/pdf v0.1.1 // // The Module struct has a String method that formats this // line of output, so that the default format is equivalent // to -f '{{.String}}'. // // Note that when a module has been replaced, its Replace field // describes the replacement module, and its Dir field is set to // the replacement's source code, if present. (That is, if Replace // is non-nil, then Dir is set to Replace.Dir, with no access to // the replaced source code.) // // The -u flag adds information about available upgrades. // When the latest version of a given module is newer than // the current one, list -u sets the Module's Update field // to information about the newer module. list -u will also set // the module's Retracted field if the current version is retracted. // The Module's String method indicates an available upgrade by // formatting the newer version in brackets after the current version. // If a version is retracted, the string "(retracted)" will follow it. // For example, 'go list -m -u all' might print: // // my/main/module // golang.org/x/text v0.3.0 [v0.4.0] => /tmp/text // rsc.io/pdf v0.1.1 (retracted) [v0.1.2] // // (For tools, 'go list -m -u -json all' may be more convenient to parse.) // // The -versions flag causes list to set the Module's Versions field // to a list of all known versions of that module, ordered according // to semantic versioning, earliest to latest. The flag also changes // the default output format to display the module path followed by the // space-separated version list. // // The -retracted flag causes list to report information about retracted // module versions. When -retracted is used with -f or -json, the Retracted // field will be set to a string explaining why the version was retracted. // The string is taken from comments on the retract directive in the // module's go.mod file. When -retracted is used with -versions, retracted // versions are listed together with unretracted versions. The -retracted // flag may be used with or without -m. // // The arguments to list -m are interpreted as a list of modules, not packages. // The main module is the module containing the current directory. // The active modules are the main module and its dependencies. // With no arguments, list -m shows the main module. // With arguments, list -m shows the modules specified by the arguments. // Any of the active modules can be specified by its module path. // The special pattern "all" specifies all the active modules, first the main // module and then dependencies sorted by module path. // A pattern containing "..." specifies the active modules whose // module paths match the pattern. // A query of the form path@version specifies the result of that query, // which is not limited to active modules. // See 'go help modules' for more about module queries. // // The template function "module" takes a single string argument // that must be a module path or query and returns the specified // module as a Module struct. If an error occurs, the result will // be a Module struct with a non-nil Error field. // // For more about build flags, see 'go help build'. // // For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. // // For more about modules, see https://golang.org/ref/mod. // // // Module maintenance // // Go mod provides access to operations on modules. // // Note that support for modules is built into all the go commands, // not just 'go mod'. For example, day-to-day adding, removing, upgrading, // and downgrading of dependencies should be done using 'go get'. // See 'go help modules' for an overview of module functionality. // // Usage: // // go mod [arguments] // // The commands are: // // download download modules to local cache // edit edit go.mod from tools or scripts // graph print module requirement graph // init initialize new module in current directory // tidy add missing and remove unused modules // vendor make vendored copy of dependencies // verify verify dependencies have expected content // why explain why packages or modules are needed // // Use "go help mod " for more information about a command. // // Download modules to local cache // // Usage: // // go mod download [-x] [-json] [modules] // // Download downloads the named modules, which can be module patterns selecting // dependencies of the main module or module queries of the form path@version. // // With no arguments, download applies to the modules needed to build and test // the packages in the main module: the modules explicitly required by the main // module if it is at 'go 1.17' or higher, or all transitively-required modules // if at 'go 1.16' or lower. // // The go command will automatically download modules as needed during ordinary // execution. The "go mod download" command is useful mainly for pre-filling // the local cache or to compute the answers for a Go module proxy. // // By default, download writes nothing to standard output. It may print progress // messages and errors to standard error. // // The -json flag causes download to print a sequence of JSON objects // to standard output, describing each downloaded module (or failure), // corresponding to this Go struct: // // type Module struct { // Path string // module path // Version string // module version // Error string // error loading module // Info string // absolute path to cached .info file // GoMod string // absolute path to cached .mod file // Zip string // absolute path to cached .zip file // Dir string // absolute path to cached source root directory // Sum string // checksum for path, version (as in go.sum) // GoModSum string // checksum for go.mod (as in go.sum) // } // // The -x flag causes download to print the commands download executes. // // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-download for more about 'go mod download'. // // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#version-queries for more about version queries. // // // Edit go.mod from tools or scripts // // Usage: // // go mod edit [editing flags] [-fmt|-print|-json] [go.mod] // // Edit provides a command-line interface for editing go.mod, // for use primarily by tools or scripts. It reads only go.mod; // it does not look up information about the modules involved. // By default, edit reads and writes the go.mod file of the main module, // but a different target file can be specified after the editing flags. // // The editing flags specify a sequence of editing operations. // // The -fmt flag reformats the go.mod file without making other changes. // This reformatting is also implied by any other modifications that use or // rewrite the go.mod file. The only time this flag is needed is if no other // flags are specified, as in 'go mod edit -fmt'. // // The -module flag changes the module's path (the go.mod file's module line). // // The -require=path@version and -droprequire=path flags // add and drop a requirement on the given module path and version. // Note that -require overrides any existing requirements on path. // These flags are mainly for tools that understand the module graph. // Users should prefer 'go get path@version' or 'go get path@none', // which make other go.mod adjustments as needed to satisfy // constraints imposed by other modules. // // The -exclude=path@version and -dropexclude=path@version flags // add and drop an exclusion for the given module path and version. // Note that -exclude=path@version is a no-op if that exclusion already exists. // // The -replace=old[@v]=new[@v] flag adds a replacement of the given // module path and version pair. If the @v in old@v is omitted, a // replacement without a version on the left side is added, which applies // to all versions of the old module path. If the @v in new@v is omitted, // the new path should be a local module root directory, not a module // path. Note that -replace overrides any redundant replacements for old[@v], // so omitting @v will drop existing replacements for specific versions. // // The -dropreplace=old[@v] flag drops a replacement of the given // module path and version pair. If the @v is omitted, a replacement without // a version on the left side is dropped. // // The -retract=version and -dropretract=version flags add and drop a // retraction on the given version. The version may be a single version // like "v1.2.3" or a closed interval like "[v1.1.0,v1.1.9]". Note that // -retract=version is a no-op if that retraction already exists. // // The -require, -droprequire, -exclude, -dropexclude, -replace, // -dropreplace, -retract, and -dropretract editing flags may be repeated, // and the changes are applied in the order given. // // The -go=version flag sets the expected Go language version. // // The -print flag prints the final go.mod in its text format instead of // writing it back to go.mod. // // The -json flag prints the final go.mod file in JSON format instead of // writing it back to go.mod. The JSON output corresponds to these Go types: // // type Module struct { // Path string // Version string // } // // type GoMod struct { // Module ModPath // Go string // Require []Require // Exclude []Module // Replace []Replace // Retract []Retract // } // // type ModPath struct { // Path string // Deprecated string // } // // type Require struct { // Path string // Version string // Indirect bool // } // // type Replace struct { // Old Module // New Module // } // // type Retract struct { // Low string // High string // Rationale string // } // // Retract entries representing a single version (not an interval) will have // the "Low" and "High" fields set to the same value. // // Note that this only describes the go.mod file itself, not other modules // referred to indirectly. For the full set of modules available to a build, // use 'go list -m -json all'. // // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-edit for more about 'go mod edit'. // // // Print module requirement graph // // Usage: // // go mod graph [-go=version] // // Graph prints the module requirement graph (with replacements applied) // in text form. Each line in the output has two space-separated fields: a module // and one of its requirements. Each module is identified as a string of the form // path@version, except for the main module, which has no @version suffix. // // The -go flag causes graph to report the module graph as loaded by the // given Go version, instead of the version indicated by the 'go' directive // in the go.mod file. // // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-graph for more about 'go mod graph'. // // // Initialize new module in current directory // // Usage: // // go mod init [module-path] // // Init initializes and writes a new go.mod file in the current directory, in // effect creating a new module rooted at the current directory. The go.mod file // must not already exist. // // Init accepts one optional argument, the module path for the new module. If the // module path argument is omitted, init will attempt to infer the module path // using import comments in .go files, vendoring tool configuration files (like // Gopkg.lock), and the current directory (if in GOPATH). // // If a configuration file for a vendoring tool is present, init will attempt to // import module requirements from it. // // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-init for more about 'go mod init'. // // // Add missing and remove unused modules // // Usage: // // go mod tidy [-e] [-v] [-go=version] [-compat=version] // // Tidy makes sure go.mod matches the source code in the module. // It adds any missing modules necessary to build the current module's // packages and dependencies, and it removes unused modules that // don't provide any relevant packages. It also adds any missing entries // to go.sum and removes any unnecessary ones. // // The -v flag causes tidy to print information about removed modules // to standard error. // // The -e flag causes tidy to attempt to proceed despite errors // encountered while loading packages. // // The -go flag causes tidy to update the 'go' directive in the go.mod // file to the given version, which may change which module dependencies // are retained as explicit requirements in the go.mod file. // (Go versions 1.17 and higher retain more requirements in order to // support lazy module loading.) // // The -compat flag preserves any additional checksums needed for the // 'go' command from the indicated major Go release to successfully load // the module graph, and causes tidy to error out if that version of the // 'go' command would load any imported package from a different module // version. By default, tidy acts as if the -compat flag were set to the // version prior to the one indicated by the 'go' directive in the go.mod // file. // // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-tidy for more about 'go mod tidy'. // // // Make vendored copy of dependencies // // Usage: // // go mod vendor [-e] [-v] [-o outdir] // // Vendor resets the main module's vendor directory to include all packages // needed to build and test all the main module's packages. // It does not include test code for vendored packages. // // The -v flag causes vendor to print the names of vendored // modules and packages to standard error. // // The -e flag causes vendor to attempt to proceed despite errors // encountered while loading packages. // // The -o flag causes vendor to create the vendor directory at the given // path instead of "vendor". The go command can only use a vendor directory // named "vendor" within the module root directory, so this flag is // primarily useful for other tools. // // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-vendor for more about 'go mod vendor'. // // // Verify dependencies have expected content // // Usage: // // go mod verify // // Verify checks that the dependencies of the current module, // which are stored in a local downloaded source cache, have not been // modified since being downloaded. If all the modules are unmodified, // verify prints "all modules verified." Otherwise it reports which // modules have been changed and causes 'go mod' to exit with a // non-zero status. // // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-verify for more about 'go mod verify'. // // // Explain why packages or modules are needed // // Usage: // // go mod why [-m] [-vendor] packages... // // Why shows a shortest path in the import graph from the main module to // each of the listed packages. If the -m flag is given, why treats the // arguments as a list of modules and finds a path to any package in each // of the modules. // // By default, why queries the graph of packages matched by "go list all", // which includes tests for reachable packages. The -vendor flag causes why // to exclude tests of dependencies. // // The output is a sequence of stanzas, one for each package or module // name on the command line, separated by blank lines. Each stanza begins // with a comment line "# package" or "# module" giving the target // package or module. Subsequent lines give a path through the import // graph, one package per line. If the package or module is not // referenced from the main module, the stanza will display a single // parenthesized note indicating that fact. // // For example: // // $ go mod why golang.org/x/text/language golang.org/x/text/encoding // # golang.org/x/text/language // rsc.io/quote // rsc.io/sampler // golang.org/x/text/language // // # golang.org/x/text/encoding // (main module does not need package golang.org/x/text/encoding) // $ // // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-why for more about 'go mod why'. // // // Workspace maintenance // // Work provides access to operations on workspaces. // // Note that support for workspaces is built into many other commands, not // just 'go work'. // // See 'go help modules' for information about Go's module system of which // workspaces are a part. // // See https://go.dev/ref/mod#workspaces for an in-depth reference on // workspaces. // // See https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/workspaces for an introductory // tutorial on workspaces. // // A workspace is specified by a go.work file that specifies a set of // module directories with the "use" directive. These modules are used as // root modules by the go command for builds and related operations. A // workspace that does not specify modules to be used cannot be used to do // builds from local modules. // // go.work files are line-oriented. Each line holds a single directive, // made up of a keyword followed by arguments. For example: // // go 1.18 // // use ../foo/bar // use ./baz // // replace example.com/foo v1.2.3 => example.com/bar v1.4.5 // // The leading keyword can be factored out of adjacent lines to create a block, // like in Go imports. // // use ( // ../foo/bar // ./baz // ) // // The use directive specifies a module to be included in the workspace's // set of main modules. The argument to the use directive is the directory // containing the module's go.mod file. // // The go directive specifies the version of Go the file was written at. It // is possible there may be future changes in the semantics of workspaces // that could be controlled by this version, but for now the version // specified has no effect. // // The replace directive has the same syntax as the replace directive in a // go.mod file and takes precedence over replaces in go.mod files. It is // primarily intended to override conflicting replaces in different workspace // modules. // // To determine whether the go command is operating in workspace mode, use // the "go env GOWORK" command. This will specify the workspace file being // used. // // Usage: // // go work [arguments] // // The commands are: // // edit edit go.work from tools or scripts // init initialize workspace file // sync sync workspace build list to modules // use add modules to workspace file // // Use "go help work " for more information about a command. // // Edit go.work from tools or scripts // // Usage: // // go work edit [editing flags] [go.work] // // Edit provides a command-line interface for editing go.work, // for use primarily by tools or scripts. It only reads go.work; // it does not look up information about the modules involved. // If no file is specified, Edit looks for a go.work file in the current // directory and its parent directories // // The editing flags specify a sequence of editing operations. // // The -fmt flag reformats the go.work file without making other changes. // This reformatting is also implied by any other modifications that use or // rewrite the go.mod file. The only time this flag is needed is if no other // flags are specified, as in 'go work edit -fmt'. // // The -use=path and -dropuse=path flags // add and drop a use directive from the go.work file's set of module directories. // // The -replace=old[@v]=new[@v] flag adds a replacement of the given // module path and version pair. If the @v in old@v is omitted, a // replacement without a version on the left side is added, which applies // to all versions of the old module path. If the @v in new@v is omitted, // the new path should be a local module root directory, not a module // path. Note that -replace overrides any redundant replacements for old[@v], // so omitting @v will drop existing replacements for specific versions. // // The -dropreplace=old[@v] flag drops a replacement of the given // module path and version pair. If the @v is omitted, a replacement without // a version on the left side is dropped. // // The -use, -dropuse, -replace, and -dropreplace, // editing flags may be repeated, and the changes are applied in the order given. // // The -go=version flag sets the expected Go language version. // // The -print flag prints the final go.work in its text format instead of // writing it back to go.mod. // // The -json flag prints the final go.work file in JSON format instead of // writing it back to go.mod. The JSON output corresponds to these Go types: // // type GoWork struct { // Go string // Use []Use // Replace []Replace // } // // type Use struct { // DiskPath string // ModulePath string // } // // type Replace struct { // Old Module // New Module // } // // type Module struct { // Path string // Version string // } // // See the workspaces reference at https://go.dev/ref/mod#workspaces // for more information. // // // Initialize workspace file // // Usage: // // go work init [moddirs] // // Init initializes and writes a new go.work file in the // current directory, in effect creating a new workspace at the current // directory. // // go work init optionally accepts paths to the workspace modules as // arguments. If the argument is omitted, an empty workspace with no // modules will be created. // // Each argument path is added to a use directive in the go.work file. The // current go version will also be listed in the go.work file. // // See the workspaces reference at https://go.dev/ref/mod#workspaces // for more information. // // // Sync workspace build list to modules // // Usage: // // go work sync // // Sync syncs the workspace's build list back to the // workspace's modules // // The workspace's build list is the set of versions of all the // (transitive) dependency modules used to do builds in the workspace. go // work sync generates that build list using the Minimal Version Selection // algorithm, and then syncs those versions back to each of modules // specified in the workspace (with use directives). // // The syncing is done by sequentially upgrading each of the dependency // modules specified in a workspace module to the version in the build list // if the dependency module's version is not already the same as the build // list's version. Note that Minimal Version Selection guarantees that the // build list's version of each module is always the same or higher than // that in each workspace module. // // See the workspaces reference at https://go.dev/ref/mod#workspaces // for more information. // // // Add modules to workspace file // // Usage: // // go work use [-r] moddirs // // Use provides a command-line interface for adding // directories, optionally recursively, to a go.work file. // // A use directive will be added to the go.work file for each argument // directory listed on the command line go.work file, if it exists on disk, // or removed from the go.work file if it does not exist on disk. // // The -r flag searches recursively for modules in the argument // directories, and the use command operates as if each of the directories // were specified as arguments: namely, use directives will be added for // directories that exist, and removed for directories that do not exist. // // See the workspaces reference at https://go.dev/ref/mod#workspaces // for more information. // // // Compile and run Go program // // Usage: // // go run [build flags] [-exec xprog] package [arguments...] // // Run compiles and runs the named main Go package. // Typically the package is specified as a list of .go source files from a single // directory, but it may also be an import path, file system path, or pattern // matching a single known package, as in 'go run .' or 'go run my/cmd'. // // If the package argument has a version suffix (like @latest or @v1.0.0), // "go run" builds the program in module-aware mode, ignoring the go.mod file in // the current directory or any parent directory, if there is one. This is useful // for running programs without affecting the dependencies of the main module. // // If the package argument doesn't have a version suffix, "go run" may run in // module-aware mode or GOPATH mode, depending on the GO111MODULE environment // variable and the presence of a go.mod file. See 'go help modules' for details. // If module-aware mode is enabled, "go run" runs in the context of the main // module. // // By default, 'go run' runs the compiled binary directly: 'a.out arguments...'. // If the -exec flag is given, 'go run' invokes the binary using xprog: // 'xprog a.out arguments...'. // If the -exec flag is not given, GOOS or GOARCH is different from the system // default, and a program named go_$GOOS_$GOARCH_exec can be found // on the current search path, 'go run' invokes the binary using that program, // for example 'go_js_wasm_exec a.out arguments...'. This allows execution of // cross-compiled programs when a simulator or other execution method is // available. // // The exit status of Run is not the exit status of the compiled binary. // // For more about build flags, see 'go help build'. // For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. // // See also: go build. // // // Test packages // // Usage: // // go test [build/test flags] [packages] [build/test flags & test binary flags] // // 'Go test' automates testing the packages named by the import paths. // It prints a summary of the test results in the format: // // ok archive/tar 0.011s // FAIL archive/zip 0.022s // ok compress/gzip 0.033s // ... // // followed by detailed output for each failed package. // // 'Go test' recompiles each package along with any files with names matching // the file pattern "*_test.go". // These additional files can contain test functions, benchmark functions, fuzz // tests and example functions. See 'go help testfunc' for more. // Each listed package causes the execution of a separate test binary. // Files whose names begin with "_" (including "_test.go") or "." are ignored. // // Test files that declare a package with the suffix "_test" will be compiled as a // separate package, and then linked and run with the main test binary. // // The go tool will ignore a directory named "testdata", making it available // to hold ancillary data needed by the tests. // // As part of building a test binary, go test runs go vet on the package // and its test source files to identify significant problems. If go vet // finds any problems, go test reports those and does not run the test // binary. Only a high-confidence subset of the default go vet checks are // used. That subset is: 'atomic', 'bool', 'buildtags', 'errorsas', // 'ifaceassert', 'nilfunc', 'printf', and 'stringintconv'. You can see // the documentation for these and other vet tests via "go doc cmd/vet". // To disable the running of go vet, use the -vet=off flag. To run all // checks, use the -vet=all flag. // // All test output and summary lines are printed to the go command's // standard output, even if the test printed them to its own standard // error. (The go command's standard error is reserved for printing // errors building the tests.) // // Go test runs in two different modes: // // The first, called local directory mode, occurs when go test is // invoked with no package arguments (for example, 'go test' or 'go // test -v'). In this mode, go test compiles the package sources and // tests found in the current directory and then runs the resulting // test binary. In this mode, caching (discussed below) is disabled. // After the package test finishes, go test prints a summary line // showing the test status ('ok' or 'FAIL'), package name, and elapsed // time. // // The second, called package list mode, occurs when go test is invoked // with explicit package arguments (for example 'go test math', 'go // test ./...', and even 'go test .'). In this mode, go test compiles // and tests each of the packages listed on the command line. If a // package test passes, go test prints only the final 'ok' summary // line. If a package test fails, go test prints the full test output. // If invoked with the -bench or -v flag, go test prints the full // output even for passing package tests, in order to display the // requested benchmark results or verbose logging. After the package // tests for all of the listed packages finish, and their output is // printed, go test prints a final 'FAIL' status if any package test // has failed. // // In package list mode only, go test caches successful package test // results to avoid unnecessary repeated running of tests. When the // result of a test can be recovered from the cache, go test will // redisplay the previous output instead of running the test binary // again. When this happens, go test prints '(cached)' in place of the // elapsed time in the summary line. // // The rule for a match in the cache is that the run involves the same // test binary and the flags on the command line come entirely from a // restricted set of 'cacheable' test flags, defined as -benchtime, -cpu, // -list, -parallel, -run, -short, -timeout, -failfast, and -v. // If a run of go test has any test or non-test flags outside this set, // the result is not cached. To disable test caching, use any test flag // or argument other than the cacheable flags. The idiomatic way to disable // test caching explicitly is to use -count=1. Tests that open files within // the package's source root (usually $GOPATH) or that consult environment // variables only match future runs in which the files and environment // variables are unchanged. A cached test result is treated as executing // in no time at all,so a successful package test result will be cached and // reused regardless of -timeout setting. // // In addition to the build flags, the flags handled by 'go test' itself are: // // -args // Pass the remainder of the command line (everything after -args) // to the test binary, uninterpreted and unchanged. // Because this flag consumes the remainder of the command line, // the package list (if present) must appear before this flag. // // -c // Compile the test binary to pkg.test but do not run it // (where pkg is the last element of the package's import path). // The file name can be changed with the -o flag. // // -exec xprog // Run the test binary using xprog. The behavior is the same as // in 'go run'. See 'go help run' for details. // // -i // Install packages that are dependencies of the test. // Do not run the test. // The -i flag is deprecated. Compiled packages are cached automatically. // // -json // Convert test output to JSON suitable for automated processing. // See 'go doc test2json' for the encoding details. // // -o file // Compile the test binary to the named file. // The test still runs (unless -c or -i is specified). // // The test binary also accepts flags that control execution of the test; these // flags are also accessible by 'go test'. See 'go help testflag' for details. // // For more about build flags, see 'go help build'. // For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. // // See also: go build, go vet. // // // Run specified go tool // // Usage: // // go tool [-n] command [args...] // // Tool runs the go tool command identified by the arguments. // With no arguments it prints the list of known tools. // // The -n flag causes tool to print the command that would be // executed but not execute it. // // For more about each tool command, see 'go doc cmd/'. // // // Print Go version // // Usage: // // go version [-m] [-v] [file ...] // // Version prints the build information for Go executables. // // Go version reports the Go version used to build each of the named // executable files. // // If no files are named on the command line, go version prints its own // version information. // // If a directory is named, go version walks that directory, recursively, // looking for recognized Go binaries and reporting their versions. // By default, go version does not report unrecognized files found // during a directory scan. The -v flag causes it to report unrecognized files. // // The -m flag causes go version to print each executable's embedded // module version information, when available. In the output, the module // information consists of multiple lines following the version line, each // indented by a leading tab character. // // See also: go doc runtime/debug.BuildInfo. // // // Report likely mistakes in packages // // Usage: // // go vet [-n] [-x] [-vettool prog] [build flags] [vet flags] [packages] // // Vet runs the Go vet command on the packages named by the import paths. // // For more about vet and its flags, see 'go doc cmd/vet'. // For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'. // For a list of checkers and their flags, see 'go tool vet help'. // For details of a specific checker such as 'printf', see 'go tool vet help printf'. // // The -n flag prints commands that would be executed. // The -x flag prints commands as they are executed. // // The -vettool=prog flag selects a different analysis tool with alternative // or additional checks. // For example, the 'shadow' analyzer can be built and run using these commands: // // go install golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis/passes/shadow/cmd/shadow // go vet -vettool=$(which shadow) // // The build flags supported by go vet are those that control package resolution // and execution, such as -n, -x, -v, -tags, and -toolexec. // For more about these flags, see 'go help build'. // // See also: go fmt, go fix. // // // Build constraints // // A build constraint, also known as a build tag, is a line comment that begins // // //go:build // // that lists the conditions under which a file should be included in the package. // Constraints may appear in any kind of source file (not just Go), but // they must appear near the top of the file, preceded // only by blank lines and other line comments. These rules mean that in Go // files a build constraint must appear before the package clause. // // To distinguish build constraints from package documentation, // a build constraint should be followed by a blank line. // // A build constraint is evaluated as an expression containing options // combined by ||, &&, and ! operators and parentheses. Operators have // the same meaning as in Go. // // For example, the following build constraint constrains a file to // build when the "linux" and "386" constraints are satisfied, or when // "darwin" is satisfied and "cgo" is not: // // //go:build (linux && 386) || (darwin && !cgo) // // It is an error for a file to have more than one //go:build line. // // During a particular build, the following words are satisfied: // // - the target operating system, as spelled by runtime.GOOS, set with the // GOOS environment variable. // - the target architecture, as spelled by runtime.GOARCH, set with the // GOARCH environment variable. // - the compiler being used, either "gc" or "gccgo" // - "cgo", if the cgo command is supported (see CGO_ENABLED in // 'go help environment'). // - a term for each Go major release, through the current version: // "go1.1" from Go version 1.1 onward, "go1.12" from Go 1.12, and so on. // - any additional tags given by the -tags flag (see 'go help build'). // // There are no separate build tags for beta or minor releases. // // If a file's name, after stripping the extension and a possible _test suffix, // matches any of the following patterns: // *_GOOS // *_GOARCH // *_GOOS_GOARCH // (example: source_windows_amd64.go) where GOOS and GOARCH represent // any known operating system and architecture values respectively, then // the file is considered to have an implicit build constraint requiring // those terms (in addition to any explicit constraints in the file). // // Using GOOS=android matches build tags and files as for GOOS=linux // in addition to android tags and files. // // Using GOOS=illumos matches build tags and files as for GOOS=solaris // in addition to illumos tags and files. // // Using GOOS=ios matches build tags and files as for GOOS=darwin // in addition to ios tags and files. // // To keep a file from being considered for the build: // // //go:build ignore // // (any other unsatisfied word will work as well, but "ignore" is conventional.) // // To build a file only when using cgo, and only on Linux and OS X: // // //go:build cgo && (linux || darwin) // // Such a file is usually paired with another file implementing the // default functionality for other systems, which in this case would // carry the constraint: // // //go:build !(cgo && (linux || darwin)) // // Naming a file dns_windows.go will cause it to be included only when // building the package for Windows; similarly, math_386.s will be included // only when building the package for 32-bit x86. // // Go versions 1.16 and earlier used a different syntax for build constraints, // with a "// +build" prefix. The gofmt command will add an equivalent //go:build // constraint when encountering the older syntax. // // // Build modes // // The 'go build' and 'go install' commands take a -buildmode argument which // indicates which kind of object file is to be built. Currently supported values // are: // // -buildmode=archive // Build the listed non-main packages into .a files. Packages named // main are ignored. // // -buildmode=c-archive // Build the listed main package, plus all packages it imports, // into a C archive file. The only callable symbols will be those // functions exported using a cgo //export comment. Requires // exactly one main package to be listed. // // -buildmode=c-shared // Build the listed main package, plus all packages it imports, // into a C shared library. The only callable symbols will // be those functions exported using a cgo //export comment. // Requires exactly one main package to be listed. // // -buildmode=default // Listed main packages are built into executables and listed // non-main packages are built into .a files (the default // behavior). // // -buildmode=shared // Combine all the listed non-main packages into a single shared // library that will be used when building with the -linkshared // option. Packages named main are ignored. // // -buildmode=exe // Build the listed main packages and everything they import into // executables. Packages not named main are ignored. // // -buildmode=pie // Build the listed main packages and everything they import into // position independent executables (PIE). Packages not named // main are ignored. // // -buildmode=plugin // Build the listed main packages, plus all packages that they // import, into a Go plugin. Packages not named main are ignored. // // On AIX, when linking a C program that uses a Go archive built with // -buildmode=c-archive, you must pass -Wl,-bnoobjreorder to the C compiler. // // // Calling between Go and C // // There are two different ways to call between Go and C/C++ code. // // The first is the cgo tool, which is part of the Go distribution. For // information on how to use it see the cgo documentation (go doc cmd/cgo). // // The second is the SWIG program, which is a general tool for // interfacing between languages. For information on SWIG see // http://swig.org/. When running go build, any file with a .swig // extension will be passed to SWIG. Any file with a .swigcxx extension // will be passed to SWIG with the -c++ option. // // When either cgo or SWIG is used, go build will pass any .c, .m, .s, .S // or .sx files to the C compiler, and any .cc, .cpp, .cxx files to the C++ // compiler. The CC or CXX environment variables may be set to determine // the C or C++ compiler, respectively, to use. // // // Build and test caching // // The go command caches build outputs for reuse in future builds. // The default location for cache data is a subdirectory named go-build // in the standard user cache directory for the current operating system. // Setting the GOCACHE environment variable overrides this default, // and running 'go env GOCACHE' prints the current cache directory. // // The go command periodically deletes cached data that has not been // used recently. Running 'go clean -cache' deletes all cached data. // // The build cache correctly accounts for changes to Go source files, // compilers, compiler options, and so on: cleaning the cache explicitly // should not be necessary in typical use. However, the build cache // does not detect changes to C libraries imported with cgo. // If you have made changes to the C libraries on your system, you // will need to clean the cache explicitly or else use the -a build flag // (see 'go help build') to force rebuilding of packages that // depend on the updated C libraries. // // The go command also caches successful package test results. // See 'go help test' for details. Running 'go clean -testcache' removes // all cached test results (but not cached build results). // // The go command also caches values used in fuzzing with 'go test -fuzz', // specifically, values that expanded code coverage when passed to a // fuzz function. These values are not used for regular building and // testing, but they're stored in a subdirectory of the build cache. // Running 'go clean -fuzzcache' removes all cached fuzzing values. // This may make fuzzing less effective, temporarily. // // The GODEBUG environment variable can enable printing of debugging // information about the state of the cache: // // GODEBUG=gocacheverify=1 causes the go command to bypass the // use of any cache entries and instead rebuild everything and check // that the results match existing cache entries. // // GODEBUG=gocachehash=1 causes the go command to print the inputs // for all of the content hashes it uses to construct cache lookup keys. // The output is voluminous but can be useful for debugging the cache. // // GODEBUG=gocachetest=1 causes the go command to print details of its // decisions about whether to reuse a cached test result. // // // Environment variables // // The go command and the tools it invokes consult environment variables // for configuration. If an environment variable is unset, the go command // uses a sensible default setting. To see the effective setting of the // variable , run 'go env '. To change the default setting, // run 'go env -w ='. Defaults changed using 'go env -w' // are recorded in a Go environment configuration file stored in the // per-user configuration directory, as reported by os.UserConfigDir. // The location of the configuration file can be changed by setting // the environment variable GOENV, and 'go env GOENV' prints the // effective location, but 'go env -w' cannot change the default location. // See 'go help env' for details. // // General-purpose environment variables: // // GO111MODULE // Controls whether the go command runs in module-aware mode or GOPATH mode. // May be "off", "on", or "auto". // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#mod-commands. // GCCGO // The gccgo command to run for 'go build -compiler=gccgo'. // GOARCH // The architecture, or processor, for which to compile code. // Examples are amd64, 386, arm, ppc64. // GOBIN // The directory where 'go install' will install a command. // GOCACHE // The directory where the go command will store cached // information for reuse in future builds. // GOMODCACHE // The directory where the go command will store downloaded modules. // GODEBUG // Enable various debugging facilities. See 'go doc runtime' // for details. // GOENV // The location of the Go environment configuration file. // Cannot be set using 'go env -w'. // Setting GOENV=off in the environment disables the use of the // default configuration file. // GOFLAGS // A space-separated list of -flag=value settings to apply // to go commands by default, when the given flag is known by // the current command. Each entry must be a standalone flag. // Because the entries are space-separated, flag values must // not contain spaces. Flags listed on the command line // are applied after this list and therefore override it. // GOINSECURE // Comma-separated list of glob patterns (in the syntax of Go's path.Match) // of module path prefixes that should always be fetched in an insecure // manner. Only applies to dependencies that are being fetched directly. // GOINSECURE does not disable checksum database validation. GOPRIVATE or // GONOSUMDB may be used to achieve that. // GOOS // The operating system for which to compile code. // Examples are linux, darwin, windows, netbsd. // GOPATH // For more details see: 'go help gopath'. // GOPROXY // URL of Go module proxy. See https://golang.org/ref/mod#environment-variables // and https://golang.org/ref/mod#module-proxy for details. // GOPRIVATE, GONOPROXY, GONOSUMDB // Comma-separated list of glob patterns (in the syntax of Go's path.Match) // of module path prefixes that should always be fetched directly // or that should not be compared against the checksum database. // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#private-modules. // GOROOT // The root of the go tree. // GOSUMDB // The name of checksum database to use and optionally its public key and // URL. See https://golang.org/ref/mod#authenticating. // GOTMPDIR // The directory where the go command will write // temporary source files, packages, and binaries. // GOVCS // Lists version control commands that may be used with matching servers. // See 'go help vcs'. // GOWORK // In module aware mode, use the given go.work file as a workspace file. // By default or when GOWORK is "auto", the go command searches for a // file named go.work in the current directory and then containing directories // until one is found. If a valid go.work file is found, the modules // specified will collectively be used as the main modules. If GOWORK // is "off", or a go.work file is not found in "auto" mode, workspace // mode is disabled. // // Environment variables for use with cgo: // // AR // The command to use to manipulate library archives when // building with the gccgo compiler. // The default is 'ar'. // CC // The command to use to compile C code. // CGO_ENABLED // Whether the cgo command is supported. Either 0 or 1. // CGO_CFLAGS // Flags that cgo will pass to the compiler when compiling // C code. // CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW // A regular expression specifying additional flags to allow // to appear in #cgo CFLAGS source code directives. // Does not apply to the CGO_CFLAGS environment variable. // CGO_CFLAGS_DISALLOW // A regular expression specifying flags that must be disallowed // from appearing in #cgo CFLAGS source code directives. // Does not apply to the CGO_CFLAGS environment variable. // CGO_CPPFLAGS, CGO_CPPFLAGS_ALLOW, CGO_CPPFLAGS_DISALLOW // Like CGO_CFLAGS, CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW, and CGO_CFLAGS_DISALLOW, // but for the C preprocessor. // CGO_CXXFLAGS, CGO_CXXFLAGS_ALLOW, CGO_CXXFLAGS_DISALLOW // Like CGO_CFLAGS, CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW, and CGO_CFLAGS_DISALLOW, // but for the C++ compiler. // CGO_FFLAGS, CGO_FFLAGS_ALLOW, CGO_FFLAGS_DISALLOW // Like CGO_CFLAGS, CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW, and CGO_CFLAGS_DISALLOW, // but for the Fortran compiler. // CGO_LDFLAGS, CGO_LDFLAGS_ALLOW, CGO_LDFLAGS_DISALLOW // Like CGO_CFLAGS, CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW, and CGO_CFLAGS_DISALLOW, // but for the linker. // CXX // The command to use to compile C++ code. // FC // The command to use to compile Fortran code. // PKG_CONFIG // Path to pkg-config tool. // // Architecture-specific environment variables: // // GOARM // For GOARCH=arm, the ARM architecture for which to compile. // Valid values are 5, 6, 7. // GO386 // For GOARCH=386, how to implement floating point instructions. // Valid values are sse2 (default), softfloat. // GOAMD64 // For GOARCH=amd64, the microarchitecture level for which to compile. // Valid values are v1 (default), v2, v3, v4. // See https://golang.org/wiki/MinimumRequirements#amd64 // GOMIPS // For GOARCH=mips{,le}, whether to use floating point instructions. // Valid values are hardfloat (default), softfloat. // GOMIPS64 // For GOARCH=mips64{,le}, whether to use floating point instructions. // Valid values are hardfloat (default), softfloat. // GOPPC64 // For GOARCH=ppc64{,le}, the target ISA (Instruction Set Architecture). // Valid values are power8 (default), power9. // GOWASM // For GOARCH=wasm, comma-separated list of experimental WebAssembly features to use. // Valid values are satconv, signext. // // Special-purpose environment variables: // // GCCGOTOOLDIR // If set, where to find gccgo tools, such as cgo. // The default is based on how gccgo was configured. // GOEXPERIMENT // Comma-separated list of toolchain experiments to enable or disable. // The list of available experiments may change arbitrarily over time. // See src/internal/goexperiment/flags.go for currently valid values. // Warning: This variable is provided for the development and testing // of the Go toolchain itself. Use beyond that purpose is unsupported. // GOROOT_FINAL // The root of the installed Go tree, when it is // installed in a location other than where it is built. // File names in stack traces are rewritten from GOROOT to // GOROOT_FINAL. // GO_EXTLINK_ENABLED // Whether the linker should use external linking mode // when using -linkmode=auto with code that uses cgo. // Set to 0 to disable external linking mode, 1 to enable it. // GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL // Defined by Git. A colon-separated list of schemes that are allowed // to be used with git fetch/clone. If set, any scheme not explicitly // mentioned will be considered insecure by 'go get'. // Because the variable is defined by Git, the default value cannot // be set using 'go env -w'. // // Additional information available from 'go env' but not read from the environment: // // GOEXE // The executable file name suffix (".exe" on Windows, "" on other systems). // GOGCCFLAGS // A space-separated list of arguments supplied to the CC command. // GOHOSTARCH // The architecture (GOARCH) of the Go toolchain binaries. // GOHOSTOS // The operating system (GOOS) of the Go toolchain binaries. // GOMOD // The absolute path to the go.mod of the main module. // If module-aware mode is enabled, but there is no go.mod, GOMOD will be // os.DevNull ("/dev/null" on Unix-like systems, "NUL" on Windows). // If module-aware mode is disabled, GOMOD will be the empty string. // GOTOOLDIR // The directory where the go tools (compile, cover, doc, etc...) are installed. // GOVERSION // The version of the installed Go tree, as reported by runtime.Version. // // // File types // // The go command examines the contents of a restricted set of files // in each directory. It identifies which files to examine based on // the extension of the file name. These extensions are: // // .go // Go source files. // .c, .h // C source files. // If the package uses cgo or SWIG, these will be compiled with the // OS-native compiler (typically gcc); otherwise they will // trigger an error. // .cc, .cpp, .cxx, .hh, .hpp, .hxx // C++ source files. Only useful with cgo or SWIG, and always // compiled with the OS-native compiler. // .m // Objective-C source files. Only useful with cgo, and always // compiled with the OS-native compiler. // .s, .S, .sx // Assembler source files. // If the package uses cgo or SWIG, these will be assembled with the // OS-native assembler (typically gcc (sic)); otherwise they // will be assembled with the Go assembler. // .swig, .swigcxx // SWIG definition files. // .syso // System object files. // // Files of each of these types except .syso may contain build // constraints, but the go command stops scanning for build constraints // at the first item in the file that is not a blank line or //-style // line comment. See the go/build package documentation for // more details. // // // The go.mod file // // A module version is defined by a tree of source files, with a go.mod // file in its root. When the go command is run, it looks in the current // directory and then successive parent directories to find the go.mod // marking the root of the main (current) module. // // The go.mod file format is described in detail at // https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-file. // // To create a new go.mod file, use 'go mod init'. For details see // 'go help mod init' or https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-init. // // To add missing module requirements or remove unneeded requirements, // use 'go mod tidy'. For details, see 'go help mod tidy' or // https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-tidy. // // To add, upgrade, downgrade, or remove a specific module requirement, use // 'go get'. For details, see 'go help module-get' or // https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-get. // // To make other changes or to parse go.mod as JSON for use by other tools, // use 'go mod edit'. See 'go help mod edit' or // https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-edit. // // // GOPATH environment variable // // The Go path is used to resolve import statements. // It is implemented by and documented in the go/build package. // // The GOPATH environment variable lists places to look for Go code. // On Unix, the value is a colon-separated string. // On Windows, the value is a semicolon-separated string. // On Plan 9, the value is a list. // // If the environment variable is unset, GOPATH defaults // to a subdirectory named "go" in the user's home directory // ($HOME/go on Unix, %USERPROFILE%\go on Windows), // unless that directory holds a Go distribution. // Run "go env GOPATH" to see the current GOPATH. // // See https://golang.org/wiki/SettingGOPATH to set a custom GOPATH. // // Each directory listed in GOPATH must have a prescribed structure: // // The src directory holds source code. The path below src // determines the import path or executable name. // // The pkg directory holds installed package objects. // As in the Go tree, each target operating system and // architecture pair has its own subdirectory of pkg // (pkg/GOOS_GOARCH). // // If DIR is a directory listed in the GOPATH, a package with // source in DIR/src/foo/bar can be imported as "foo/bar" and // has its compiled form installed to "DIR/pkg/GOOS_GOARCH/foo/bar.a". // // The bin directory holds compiled commands. // Each command is named for its source directory, but only // the final element, not the entire path. That is, the // command with source in DIR/src/foo/quux is installed into // DIR/bin/quux, not DIR/bin/foo/quux. The "foo/" prefix is stripped // so that you can add DIR/bin to your PATH to get at the // installed commands. If the GOBIN environment variable is // set, commands are installed to the directory it names instead // of DIR/bin. GOBIN must be an absolute path. // // Here's an example directory layout: // // GOPATH=/home/user/go // // /home/user/go/ // src/ // foo/ // bar/ (go code in package bar) // x.go // quux/ (go code in package main) // y.go // bin/ // quux (installed command) // pkg/ // linux_amd64/ // foo/ // bar.a (installed package object) // // Go searches each directory listed in GOPATH to find source code, // but new packages are always downloaded into the first directory // in the list. // // See https://golang.org/doc/code.html for an example. // // GOPATH and Modules // // When using modules, GOPATH is no longer used for resolving imports. // However, it is still used to store downloaded source code (in GOPATH/pkg/mod) // and compiled commands (in GOPATH/bin). // // Internal Directories // // Code in or below a directory named "internal" is importable only // by code in the directory tree rooted at the parent of "internal". // Here's an extended version of the directory layout above: // // /home/user/go/ // src/ // crash/ // bang/ (go code in package bang) // b.go // foo/ (go code in package foo) // f.go // bar/ (go code in package bar) // x.go // internal/ // baz/ (go code in package baz) // z.go // quux/ (go code in package main) // y.go // // // The code in z.go is imported as "foo/internal/baz", but that // import statement can only appear in source files in the subtree // rooted at foo. The source files foo/f.go, foo/bar/x.go, and // foo/quux/y.go can all import "foo/internal/baz", but the source file // crash/bang/b.go cannot. // // See https://golang.org/s/go14internal for details. // // Vendor Directories // // Go 1.6 includes support for using local copies of external dependencies // to satisfy imports of those dependencies, often referred to as vendoring. // // Code below a directory named "vendor" is importable only // by code in the directory tree rooted at the parent of "vendor", // and only using an import path that omits the prefix up to and // including the vendor element. // // Here's the example from the previous section, // but with the "internal" directory renamed to "vendor" // and a new foo/vendor/crash/bang directory added: // // /home/user/go/ // src/ // crash/ // bang/ (go code in package bang) // b.go // foo/ (go code in package foo) // f.go // bar/ (go code in package bar) // x.go // vendor/ // crash/ // bang/ (go code in package bang) // b.go // baz/ (go code in package baz) // z.go // quux/ (go code in package main) // y.go // // The same visibility rules apply as for internal, but the code // in z.go is imported as "baz", not as "foo/vendor/baz". // // Code in vendor directories deeper in the source tree shadows // code in higher directories. Within the subtree rooted at foo, an import // of "crash/bang" resolves to "foo/vendor/crash/bang", not the // top-level "crash/bang". // // Code in vendor directories is not subject to import path // checking (see 'go help importpath'). // // When 'go get' checks out or updates a git repository, it now also // updates submodules. // // Vendor directories do not affect the placement of new repositories // being checked out for the first time by 'go get': those are always // placed in the main GOPATH, never in a vendor subtree. // // See https://golang.org/s/go15vendor for details. // // // Legacy GOPATH go get // // The 'go get' command changes behavior depending on whether the // go command is running in module-aware mode or legacy GOPATH mode. // This help text, accessible as 'go help gopath-get' even in module-aware mode, // describes 'go get' as it operates in legacy GOPATH mode. // // Usage: go get [-d] [-f] [-t] [-u] [-v] [-fix] [build flags] [packages] // // Get downloads the packages named by the import paths, along with their // dependencies. It then installs the named packages, like 'go install'. // // The -d flag instructs get to stop after downloading the packages; that is, // it instructs get not to install the packages. // // The -f flag, valid only when -u is set, forces get -u not to verify that // each package has been checked out from the source control repository // implied by its import path. This can be useful if the source is a local fork // of the original. // // The -fix flag instructs get to run the fix tool on the downloaded packages // before resolving dependencies or building the code. // // The -t flag instructs get to also download the packages required to build // the tests for the specified packages. // // The -u flag instructs get to use the network to update the named packages // and their dependencies. By default, get uses the network to check out // missing packages but does not use it to look for updates to existing packages. // // The -v flag enables verbose progress and debug output. // // 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/. If the GOPATH contains multiple entries, // get uses the first one. For more details 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 // searches for a branch or tag named "go1". If no such version exists // it retrieves the default branch of the package. // // 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 // download, see 'go help importpath'. // // This text describes the behavior of get when using GOPATH // to manage source code and dependencies. // If instead the go command is running in module-aware mode, // the details of get's flags and effects change, as does 'go help get'. // See 'go help modules' and 'go help module-get'. // // See also: go build, go install, go clean. // // // Module proxy protocol // // A Go module proxy is any web server that can respond to GET requests for // URLs of a specified form. The requests have no query parameters, so even // a site serving from a fixed file system (including a file:/// URL) // can be a module proxy. // // For details on the GOPROXY protocol, see // https://golang.org/ref/mod#goproxy-protocol. // // // Import path syntax // // An import path (see 'go help packages') denotes a package stored in the local // file system. In general, an import path denotes either a standard package (such // as "unicode/utf8") or a package found in one of the work spaces (For more // details see: 'go help gopath'). // // Relative import paths // // An import path beginning with ./ or ../ is called a relative path. // The toolchain supports relative import paths as a shortcut in two ways. // // First, a relative path can be used as a shorthand on the command line. // If you are working in the directory containing the code imported as // "unicode" and want to run the tests for "unicode/utf8", you can type // "go test ./utf8" instead of needing to specify the full path. // Similarly, in the reverse situation, "go test .." will test "unicode" from // the "unicode/utf8" directory. Relative patterns are also allowed, like // "go test ./..." to test all subdirectories. See 'go help packages' for details // on the pattern syntax. // // Second, if you are compiling a Go program not in a work space, // you can use a relative path in an import statement in that program // to refer to nearby code also not in a work space. // This makes it easy to experiment with small multipackage programs // outside of the usual work spaces, but such programs cannot be // installed with "go install" (there is no work space in which to install them), // so they are rebuilt from scratch each time they are built. // To avoid ambiguity, Go programs cannot use relative import paths // within a work space. // // Remote import paths // // Certain import paths also // describe how to obtain the source code for the package using // a revision control system. // // A few common code hosting sites have special syntax: // // Bitbucket (Git, Mercurial) // // import "bitbucket.org/user/project" // import "bitbucket.org/user/project/sub/directory" // // GitHub (Git) // // import "github.com/user/project" // import "github.com/user/project/sub/directory" // // Launchpad (Bazaar) // // import "launchpad.net/project" // import "launchpad.net/project/series" // import "launchpad.net/project/series/sub/directory" // // import "launchpad.net/~user/project/branch" // import "launchpad.net/~user/project/branch/sub/directory" // // IBM DevOps Services (Git) // // import "hub.jazz.net/git/user/project" // import "hub.jazz.net/git/user/project/sub/directory" // // For code hosted on other servers, import paths may either be qualified // with the version control type, or the go tool can dynamically fetch // the import path over https/http and discover where the code resides // from a tag in the HTML. // // To declare the code location, an import path of the form // // repository.vcs/path // // specifies the given repository, with or without the .vcs suffix, // using the named version control system, and then the path inside // that repository. The supported version control systems are: // // Bazaar .bzr // Fossil .fossil // Git .git // Mercurial .hg // Subversion .svn // // For example, // // import "example.org/user/foo.hg" // // denotes the root directory of the Mercurial repository at // example.org/user/foo or foo.hg, and // // import "example.org/repo.git/foo/bar" // // denotes the foo/bar directory of the Git repository at // example.org/repo or repo.git. // // When a version control system supports multiple protocols, // each is tried in turn when downloading. For example, a Git // download tries https://, then git+ssh://. // // By default, downloads are restricted to known secure protocols // (e.g. https, ssh). To override this setting for Git downloads, the // GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL environment variable can be set (For more details see: // 'go help environment'). // // If the import path is not a known code hosting site and also lacks a // version control qualifier, the go tool attempts to fetch the import // over https/http and looks for a tag in the document's HTML // . // // The meta tag has the form: // // // // The import-prefix is the import path corresponding to the repository // root. It must be a prefix or an exact match of the package being // fetched with "go get". If it's not an exact match, another http // request is made at the prefix to verify the tags match. // // The meta tag should appear as early in the file as possible. // In particular, it should appear before any raw JavaScript or CSS, // to avoid confusing the go command's restricted parser. // // The vcs is one of "bzr", "fossil", "git", "hg", "svn". // // The repo-root is the root of the version control system // containing a scheme and not containing a .vcs qualifier. // // For example, // // import "example.org/pkg/foo" // // will result in the following requests: // // https://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1 (preferred) // http://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1 (fallback, only with use of correctly set GOINSECURE) // // If that page contains the meta tag // // // // the go tool will verify that https://example.org/?go-get=1 contains the // same meta tag and then git clone https://code.org/r/p/exproj into // GOPATH/src/example.org. // // When using GOPATH, downloaded packages are written to the first directory // listed in the GOPATH environment variable. // (See 'go help gopath-get' and 'go help gopath'.) // // When using modules, downloaded packages are stored in the module cache. // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#module-cache. // // When using modules, an additional variant of the go-import meta tag is // recognized and is preferred over those listing version control systems. // That variant uses "mod" as the vcs in the content value, as in: // // // // This tag means to fetch modules with paths beginning with example.org // from the module proxy available at the URL https://code.org/moduleproxy. // See https://golang.org/ref/mod#goproxy-protocol for details about the // proxy protocol. // // Import path checking // // When the custom import path feature described above redirects to a // known code hosting site, each of the resulting packages has two possible // import paths, using the custom domain or the known hosting site. // // A package statement is said to have an "import comment" if it is immediately // followed (before the next newline) by a comment of one of these two forms: // // package math // import "path" // package math /* import "path" */ // // The go command will refuse to install a package with an import comment // unless it is being referred to by that import path. In this way, import comments // let package authors make sure the custom import path is used and not a // direct path to the underlying code hosting site. // // Import path checking is disabled for code found within vendor trees. // This makes it possible to copy code into alternate locations in vendor trees // without needing to update import comments. // // Import path checking is also disabled when using modules. // Import path comments are obsoleted by the go.mod file's module statement. // // See https://golang.org/s/go14customimport for details. // // // Modules, module versions, and more // // Modules are how Go manages dependencies. // // A module is a collection of packages that are released, versioned, and // distributed together. Modules may be downloaded directly from version control // repositories or from module proxy servers. // // For a series of tutorials on modules, see // https://golang.org/doc/tutorial/create-module. // // For a detailed reference on modules, see https://golang.org/ref/mod. // // By default, the go command may download modules from https://proxy.golang.org. // It may authenticate modules using the checksum database at // https://sum.golang.org. Both services are operated by the Go team at Google. // The privacy policies for these services are available at // https://proxy.golang.org/privacy and https://sum.golang.org/privacy, // respectively. // // The go command's download behavior may be configured using GOPROXY, GOSUMDB, // GOPRIVATE, and other environment variables. See 'go help environment' // and https://golang.org/ref/mod#private-module-privacy for more information. // // // Module authentication using go.sum // // When the go command downloads a module zip file or go.mod file into the // module cache, it computes a cryptographic hash and compares it with a known // value to verify the file hasn't changed since it was first downloaded. Known // hashes are stored in a file in the module root directory named go.sum. Hashes // may also be downloaded from the checksum database depending on the values of // GOSUMDB, GOPRIVATE, and GONOSUMDB. // // For details, see https://golang.org/ref/mod#authenticating. // // // Package lists and patterns // // Many commands apply to a set of packages: // // go action [packages] // // Usually, [packages] is a list of import paths. // // An import path that is a rooted path or that begins with // a . or .. element is interpreted as a file system path and // denotes the package in that directory. // // Otherwise, the import path P denotes the package found in // the directory DIR/src/P for some DIR listed in the GOPATH // environment variable (For more details see: 'go help gopath'). // // If no import paths are given, the action applies to the // package in the current directory. // // There are four reserved names for paths that should not be used // for packages to be built with the go tool: // // - "main" denotes the top-level package in a stand-alone executable. // // - "all" expands to all packages found in all the GOPATH // trees. For example, 'go list all' lists all the packages on the local // system. When using modules, "all" expands to all packages in // the main module and their dependencies, including dependencies // needed by tests of any of those. // // - "std" is like all but expands to just the packages in the standard // Go library. // // - "cmd" expands to the Go repository's commands and their // internal libraries. // // Import paths beginning with "cmd/" only match source code in // the Go repository. // // An import path is a pattern if it includes one or more "..." wildcards, // each of which can match any string, including the empty string and // strings containing slashes. Such a pattern expands to all package // directories found in the GOPATH trees with names matching the // patterns. // // To make common patterns more convenient, there are two special cases. // First, /... at the end of the pattern can match an empty string, // so that net/... matches both net and packages in its subdirectories, like net/http. // Second, any slash-separated pattern element containing a wildcard never // participates in a match of the "vendor" element in the path of a vendored // package, so that ./... does not match packages in subdirectories of // ./vendor or ./mycode/vendor, but ./vendor/... and ./mycode/vendor/... do. // Note, however, that a directory named vendor that itself contains code // is not a vendored package: cmd/vendor would be a command named vendor, // and the pattern cmd/... matches it. // See golang.org/s/go15vendor for more about vendoring. // // An import path can also name a package to be downloaded from // a remote repository. Run 'go help importpath' for details. // // Every package in a program must have a unique import path. // By convention, this is arranged by starting each path with a // unique prefix that belongs to you. For example, paths used // internally at Google all begin with 'google', and paths // denoting remote repositories begin with the path to the code, // such as 'github.com/user/repo'. // // Packages in a program need not have unique package names, // but there are two reserved package names with special meaning. // The name main indicates a command, not a library. // Commands are built into binaries and cannot be imported. // The name documentation indicates documentation for // a non-Go program in the directory. Files in package documentation // are ignored by the go command. // // As a special case, if the package list is a list of .go files from a // single directory, the command is applied to a single synthesized // package made up of exactly those files, ignoring any build constraints // in those files and ignoring any other files in the directory. // // Directory and file names that begin with "." or "_" are ignored // by the go tool, as are directories named "testdata". // // // Configuration for downloading non-public code // // The go command defaults to downloading modules from the public Go module // mirror at proxy.golang.org. It also defaults to validating downloaded modules, // regardless of source, against the public Go checksum database at sum.golang.org. // These defaults work well for publicly available source code. // // The GOPRIVATE environment variable controls which modules the go command // considers to be private (not available publicly) and should therefore not use // the proxy or checksum database. The variable is a comma-separated list of // glob patterns (in the syntax of Go's path.Match) of module path prefixes. // For example, // // GOPRIVATE=*.corp.example.com,rsc.io/private // // causes the go command to treat as private any module with a path prefix // matching either pattern, including git.corp.example.com/xyzzy, rsc.io/private, // and rsc.io/private/quux. // // For fine-grained control over module download and validation, the GONOPROXY // and GONOSUMDB environment variables accept the same kind of glob list // and override GOPRIVATE for the specific decision of whether to use the proxy // and checksum database, respectively. // // For example, if a company ran a module proxy serving private modules, // users would configure go using: // // GOPRIVATE=*.corp.example.com // GOPROXY=proxy.example.com // GONOPROXY=none // // The GOPRIVATE variable is also used to define the "public" and "private" // patterns for the GOVCS variable; see 'go help vcs'. For that usage, // GOPRIVATE applies even in GOPATH mode. In that case, it matches import paths // instead of module paths. // // The 'go env -w' command (see 'go help env') can be used to set these variables // for future go command invocations. // // For more details, see https://golang.org/ref/mod#private-modules. // // // Testing flags // // The 'go test' command takes both flags that apply to 'go test' itself // and flags that apply to the resulting test binary. // // Several of the flags control profiling and write an execution profile // suitable for "go tool pprof"; run "go tool pprof -h" for more // information. The --alloc_space, --alloc_objects, and --show_bytes // options of pprof control how the information is presented. // // The following flags are recognized by the 'go test' command and // control the execution of any test: // // -bench regexp // Run only those benchmarks matching a regular expression. // By default, no benchmarks are run. // To run all benchmarks, use '-bench .' or '-bench=.'. // The regular expression is split by unbracketed slash (/) // characters into a sequence of regular expressions, and each // part of a benchmark's identifier must match the corresponding // element in the sequence, if any. Possible parents of matches // are run with b.N=1 to identify sub-benchmarks. For example, // given -bench=X/Y, top-level benchmarks matching X are run // with b.N=1 to find any sub-benchmarks matching Y, which are // then run in full. // // -benchtime t // Run enough iterations of each benchmark to take t, specified // as a time.Duration (for example, -benchtime 1h30s). // The default is 1 second (1s). // The special syntax Nx means to run the benchmark N times // (for example, -benchtime 100x). // // -count n // Run each test, benchmark, and fuzz seed n times (default 1). // If -cpu is set, run n times for each GOMAXPROCS value. // Examples are always run once. -count does not apply to // fuzz tests matched by -fuzz. // // -cover // Enable coverage analysis. // Note that because coverage works by annotating the source // code before compilation, compilation and test failures with // coverage enabled may report line numbers that don't correspond // to the original sources. // // -covermode set,count,atomic // Set the mode for coverage analysis for the package[s] // being tested. The default is "set" unless -race is enabled, // in which case it is "atomic". // The values: // set: bool: does this statement run? // count: int: how many times does this statement run? // atomic: int: count, but correct in multithreaded tests; // significantly more expensive. // Sets -cover. // // -coverpkg pattern1,pattern2,pattern3 // Apply coverage analysis in each test to packages matching the patterns. // The default is for each test to analyze only the package being tested. // See 'go help packages' for a description of package patterns. // Sets -cover. // // -cpu 1,2,4 // Specify a list of GOMAXPROCS values for which the tests, benchmarks or // fuzz tests should be executed. The default is the current value // of GOMAXPROCS. -cpu does not apply to fuzz tests matched by -fuzz. // // -failfast // Do not start new tests after the first test failure. // // -fuzz regexp // Run the fuzz test matching the regular expression. When specified, // the command line argument must match exactly one package within the // main module, and regexp must match exactly one fuzz test within // that package. Fuzzing will occur after tests, benchmarks, seed corpora // of other fuzz tests, and examples have completed. See the Fuzzing // section of the testing package documentation for details. // // -fuzztime t // Run enough iterations of the fuzz target during fuzzing to take t, // specified as a time.Duration (for example, -fuzztime 1h30s). // The default is to run forever. // The special syntax Nx means to run the fuzz target N times // (for example, -fuzztime 1000x). // // -fuzzminimizetime t // Run enough iterations of the fuzz target during each minimization // attempt to take t, as specified as a time.Duration (for example, // -fuzzminimizetime 30s). // The default is 60s. // The special syntax Nx means to run the fuzz target N times // (for example, -fuzzminimizetime 100x). // // -json // Log verbose output and test results in JSON. This presents the // same information as the -v flag in a machine-readable format. // // -list regexp // List tests, benchmarks, fuzz tests, or examples matching the regular // expression. No tests, benchmarks, fuzz tests, or examples will be run. // This will only list top-level tests. No subtest or subbenchmarks will be // shown. // // -parallel n // Allow parallel execution of test functions that call t.Parallel, and // fuzz targets that call t.Parallel when running the seed corpus. // The value of this flag is the maximum number of tests to run // simultaneously. // While fuzzing, the value of this flag is the maximum number of // subprocesses that may call the fuzz function simultaneously, regardless of // whether T.Parallel is called. // By default, -parallel is set to the value of GOMAXPROCS. // Setting -parallel to values higher than GOMAXPROCS may cause degraded // performance due to CPU contention, especially when fuzzing. // Note that -parallel only applies within a single test binary. // The 'go test' command may run tests for different packages // in parallel as well, according to the setting of the -p flag // (see 'go help build'). // // -run regexp // Run only those tests, examples, and fuzz tests matching the regular // expression. For tests, the regular expression is split by unbracketed // slash (/) characters into a sequence of regular expressions, and each // part of a test's identifier must match the corresponding element in // the sequence, if any. Note that possible parents of matches are // run too, so that -run=X/Y matches and runs and reports the result // of all tests matching X, even those without sub-tests matching Y, // because it must run them to look for those sub-tests. // // -short // Tell long-running tests to shorten their run time. // It is off by default but set during all.bash so that installing // the Go tree can run a sanity check but not spend time running // exhaustive tests. // // -shuffle off,on,N // Randomize the execution order of tests and benchmarks. // It is off by default. If -shuffle is set to on, then it will seed // the randomizer using the system clock. If -shuffle is set to an // integer N, then N will be used as the seed value. In both cases, // the seed will be reported for reproducibility. // // -timeout d // If a test binary runs longer than duration d, panic. // If d is 0, the timeout is disabled. // The default is 10 minutes (10m). // // -v // Verbose output: log all tests as they are run. Also print all // text from Log and Logf calls even if the test succeeds. // // -vet list // Configure the invocation of "go vet" during "go test" // to use the comma-separated list of vet checks. // If list is empty, "go test" runs "go vet" with a curated list of // checks believed to be always worth addressing. // If list is "off", "go test" does not run "go vet" at all. // // The following flags are also recognized by 'go test' and can be used to // profile the tests during execution: // // -benchmem // Print memory allocation statistics for benchmarks. // // -blockprofile block.out // Write a goroutine blocking profile to the specified file // when all tests are complete. // Writes test binary as -c would. // // -blockprofilerate n // Control the detail provided in goroutine blocking profiles by // calling runtime.SetBlockProfileRate with n. // See 'go doc runtime.SetBlockProfileRate'. // The profiler aims to sample, on average, one blocking event every // n nanoseconds the program spends blocked. By default, // if -test.blockprofile is set without this flag, all blocking events // are recorded, equivalent to -test.blockprofilerate=1. // // -coverprofile cover.out // Write a coverage profile to the file after all tests have passed. // Sets -cover. // // -cpuprofile cpu.out // Write a CPU profile to the specified file before exiting. // Writes test binary as -c would. // // -memprofile mem.out // Write an allocation profile to the file after all tests have passed. // Writes test binary as -c would. // // -memprofilerate n // Enable more precise (and expensive) memory allocation profiles by // setting runtime.MemProfileRate. See 'go doc runtime.MemProfileRate'. // To profile all memory allocations, use -test.memprofilerate=1. // // -mutexprofile mutex.out // Write a mutex contention profile to the specified file // when all tests are complete. // Writes test binary as -c would. // // -mutexprofilefraction n // Sample 1 in n stack traces of goroutines holding a // contended mutex. // // -outputdir directory // Place output files from profiling in the specified directory, // by default the directory in which "go test" is running. // // -trace trace.out // Write an execution trace to the specified file before exiting. // // Each of these flags is also recognized with an optional 'test.' prefix, // as in -test.v. When invoking the generated test binary (the result of // 'go test -c') directly, however, the prefix is mandatory. // // The 'go test' command rewrites or removes recognized flags, // as appropriate, both before and after the optional package list, // before invoking the test binary. // // For instance, the command // // go test -v -myflag testdata -cpuprofile=prof.out -x // // will compile the test binary and then run it as // // pkg.test -test.v -myflag testdata -test.cpuprofile=prof.out // // (The -x flag is removed because it applies only to the go command's // execution, not to the test itself.) // // The test flags that generate profiles (other than for coverage) also // leave the test binary in pkg.test for use when analyzing the profiles. // // When 'go test' runs a test binary, it does so from within the // corresponding package's source code directory. Depending on the test, // it may be necessary to do the same when invoking a generated test // binary directly. Because that directory may be located within the // module cache, which may be read-only and is verified by checksums, the // test must not write to it or any other directory within the module // unless explicitly requested by the user (such as with the -fuzz flag, // which writes failures to testdata/fuzz). // // The command-line package list, if present, must appear before any // flag not known to the go test command. Continuing the example above, // the package list would have to appear before -myflag, but could appear // on either side of -v. // // When 'go test' runs in package list mode, 'go test' caches successful // package test results to avoid unnecessary repeated running of tests. To // disable test caching, use any test flag or argument other than the // cacheable flags. The idiomatic way to disable test caching explicitly // is to use -count=1. // // To keep an argument for a test binary from being interpreted as a // known flag or a package name, use -args (see 'go help test') which // passes the remainder of the command line through to the test binary // uninterpreted and unaltered. // // For instance, the command // // go test -v -args -x -v // // will compile the test binary and then run it as // // pkg.test -test.v -x -v // // Similarly, // // go test -args math // // will compile the test binary and then run it as // // pkg.test math // // In the first example, the -x and the second -v are passed through to the // test binary unchanged and with no effect on the go command itself. // In the second example, the argument math is passed through to the test // binary, instead of being interpreted as the package list. // // // Testing functions // // The 'go test' command expects to find test, benchmark, and example functions // in the "*_test.go" files corresponding to the package under test. // // A test function is one named TestXxx (where Xxx does not start with a // lower case letter) and should have the signature, // // func TestXxx(t *testing.T) { ... } // // A benchmark function is one named BenchmarkXxx and should have the signature, // // func BenchmarkXxx(b *testing.B) { ... } // // A fuzz test is one named FuzzXxx and should have the signature, // // func FuzzXxx(f *testing.F) { ... } // // An example function is similar to a test function but, instead of using // *testing.T to report success or failure, prints output to os.Stdout. // If the last comment in the function starts with "Output:" then the output // is compared exactly against the comment (see examples below). If the last // comment begins with "Unordered output:" then the output is compared to the // comment, however the order of the lines is ignored. An example with no such // comment is compiled but not executed. An example with no text after // "Output:" is compiled, executed, and expected to produce no output. // // Godoc displays the body of ExampleXxx to demonstrate the use // of the function, constant, or variable Xxx. An example of a method M with // receiver type T or *T is named ExampleT_M. There may be multiple examples // for a given function, constant, or variable, distinguished by a trailing _xxx, // where xxx is a suffix not beginning with an upper case letter. // // Here is an example of an example: // // func ExamplePrintln() { // Println("The output of\nthis example.") // // Output: The output of // // this example. // } // // Here is another example where the ordering of the output is ignored: // // func ExamplePerm() { // for _, value := range Perm(4) { // fmt.Println(value) // } // // // Unordered output: 4 // // 2 // // 1 // // 3 // // 0 // } // // The entire test file is presented as the example when it contains a single // example function, at least one other function, type, variable, or constant // declaration, and no tests, benchmarks, or fuzz tests. // // See the documentation of the testing package for more information. // // // Controlling version control with GOVCS // // The 'go get' command can run version control commands like git // to download imported code. This functionality is critical to the decentralized // Go package ecosystem, in which code can be imported from any server, // but it is also a potential security problem, if a malicious server finds a // way to cause the invoked version control command to run unintended code. // // To balance the functionality and security concerns, the 'go get' command // by default will only use git and hg to download code from public servers. // But it will use any known version control system (bzr, fossil, git, hg, svn) // to download code from private servers, defined as those hosting packages // matching the GOPRIVATE variable (see 'go help private'). The rationale behind // allowing only Git and Mercurial is that these two systems have had the most // attention to issues of being run as clients of untrusted servers. In contrast, // Bazaar, Fossil, and Subversion have primarily been used in trusted, // authenticated environments and are not as well scrutinized as attack surfaces. // // The version control command restrictions only apply when using direct version // control access to download code. When downloading modules from a proxy, // 'go get' uses the proxy protocol instead, which is always permitted. // By default, the 'go get' command uses the Go module mirror (proxy.golang.org) // for public packages and only falls back to version control for private // packages or when the mirror refuses to serve a public package (typically for // legal reasons). Therefore, clients can still access public code served from // Bazaar, Fossil, or Subversion repositories by default, because those downloads // use the Go module mirror, which takes on the security risk of running the // version control commands using a custom sandbox. // // The GOVCS variable can be used to change the allowed version control systems // for specific packages (identified by a module or import path). // The GOVCS variable applies when building package in both module-aware mode // and GOPATH mode. When using modules, the patterns match against the module path. // When using GOPATH, the patterns match against the import path corresponding to // the root of the version control repository. // // The general form of the GOVCS setting is a comma-separated list of // pattern:vcslist rules. The pattern is a glob pattern that must match // one or more leading elements of the module or import path. The vcslist // is a pipe-separated list of allowed version control commands, or "all" // to allow use of any known command, or "off" to disallow all commands. // Note that if a module matches a pattern with vcslist "off", it may still be // downloaded if the origin server uses the "mod" scheme, which instructs the // go command to download the module using the GOPROXY protocol. // The earliest matching pattern in the list applies, even if later patterns // might also match. // // For example, consider: // // GOVCS=github.com:git,evil.com:off,*:git|hg // // With this setting, code with a module or import path beginning with // github.com/ can only use git; paths on evil.com cannot use any version // control command, and all other paths (* matches everything) can use // only git or hg. // // The special patterns "public" and "private" match public and private // module or import paths. A path is private if it matches the GOPRIVATE // variable; otherwise it is public. // // If no rules in the GOVCS variable match a particular module or import path, // the 'go get' command applies its default rule, which can now be summarized // in GOVCS notation as 'public:git|hg,private:all'. // // To allow unfettered use of any version control system for any package, use: // // GOVCS=*:all // // To disable all use of version control, use: // // GOVCS=*:off // // The 'go env -w' command (see 'go help env') can be used to set the GOVCS // variable for future go command invocations. // // package main