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| author | Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org> | 2010-02-16 15:36:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org> | 2010-02-16 15:36:55 -0800 |
| commit | edb63d1f327360a7e4396f01657e730bc7dc950d (patch) | |
| tree | 8c30d822d04d255650bdb88d71a76674680eeb0a /src/cmd/godoc/doc.go | |
| parent | ec17510824ca2c8931196e6e7786605af09901a8 (diff) | |
| download | golang-edb63d1f327360a7e4396f01657e730bc7dc950d.tar.gz | |
godoc: updated documentation
R=r
CC=golang-dev
http://codereview.appspot.com/207112
Diffstat (limited to 'src/cmd/godoc/doc.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/cmd/godoc/doc.go | 30 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/cmd/godoc/doc.go b/src/cmd/godoc/doc.go index 0831035e1..1c40ebdd9 100644 --- a/src/cmd/godoc/doc.go +++ b/src/cmd/godoc/doc.go @@ -25,12 +25,14 @@ The flags are: verbose mode -tabwidth=4 width of tabs in units of spaces - -cmdroot="src/cmd" - root command source directory (if unrooted, relative to -goroot) - -tmplroot="lib/godoc" - root template directory (if unrooted, relative to -goroot) - -pkgroot="src/pkg" - root package source directory (if unrooted, relative to -goroot) + -path="" + additional package directories (colon-separated) + -cmdroot="/goroot/src/cmd" + command source directory under -goroot (if unrooted, relative to cwd) + -tmplroot="/goroot/lib/godoc" + template directory under -goroot (if unrooted, relative to cwd) + -pkgroot="/goroot/src/pkg" + package source directory under -goroot (if unrooted, relative to cwd) -html print HTML in command-line mode -goroot=$GOROOT @@ -44,8 +46,22 @@ The flags are: -sync_minutes=0 sync interval in minutes; sync is disabled if <= 0 +The -path flag accepts a list of colon-separated paths; unrooted paths are relative +to the current working directory. Each path is considered as an additional root for +packages in order of appearance. The last (absolute) path element is the prefix for +the package path. For instance, given the flag value: + + path=".:/home/bar:/public" + +for a godoc started in /home/user/godoc, absolute paths are mapped to package paths +as follows: + + /home/user/godoc/x -> godoc/x + /home/bar/x -> bar/x + /public/x -> public/x + When godoc runs as a web server, it creates a search index from all .go files -under $GOROOT (excluding files starting with .). The index is created at startup +under -goroot (excluding files starting with .). The index is created at startup and is automatically updated every time the -sync command terminates with exit status 0, indicating that files have changed. |