// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package main var helpImportpath = &Command{ UsageLine: "importpath", Short: "description of import paths", Long: ` Many commands apply to a set of packages named by import paths: go action [importpath...] 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 (see 'go help gopath'). If no import paths are given, the action applies to the package in the current directory. The special import path "all" expands to all package directories found in all the GOPATH trees. For example, 'go list all' lists all the packages on the local system. The special import path "std" is like all but expands to just the packages in the standard Go library. 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. For example, encoding/... expands to all packages in the encoding tree. An import path can also name a package to be downloaded from a remote repository. Run 'go help remote' 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 'code.google.com/p/project'. `, } var helpRemote = &Command{ UsageLine: "remote", Short: "remote import path syntax", Long: ` An import path (see 'go help importpath') denotes a package stored in the local file system. 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 (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" Google Code Project Hosting (Git, Mercurial, Subversion) import "code.google.com/p/project" import "code.google.com/p/project/sub/directory" import "code.google.com/p/project.subrepository" import "code.google.com/p/project.subrepository/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" For code hosted on other servers, 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 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.com/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 git://, then https://, then http://. New downloaded packages are written to the first directory listed in the GOPATH environment variable (see 'go help gopath'). The go command attempts to download the version of the package appropriate for the Go release being used. Run 'go help install' for more. `, } var helpGopath = &Command{ UsageLine: "gopath", Short: "GOPATH environment variable", Long: ` 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. GOPATH must be set to build and install packages outside the standard Go tree. 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/ is stripped so that you can add DIR/bin to your PATH to get at the installed commands. Here's an example directory layout: GOPATH=/home/user/gocode /home/user/gocode/ 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. `, }