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3// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
4
5package main
6
7import "html/template"
8
9var pushTmpl = template.Must(template.New("serverpush").Parse(`
10
11<!DOCTYPE html>
12<html>
13<head>
14<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
15<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
16<meta name="theme-color" content="#375EAB">
17
18  <title>HTTP/2 Server Push Demo</title>
19
20<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/serverpush/static/style.css?{{.CacheBust}}">
21<script>
22window.initFuncs = [];
23</script>
24
25<script>
26function showtimes() {
27	var times = 'DOM loaded: ' + (window.performance.timing.domContentLoadedEventEnd - window.performance.timing.navigationStart) + 'ms, '
28	times += 'DOM complete (all loaded): ' + (window.performance.timing.domComplete - window.performance.timing.navigationStart) + 'ms, '
29	times += 'Load event fired: ' + (window.performance.timing.loadEventStart - window.performance.timing.navigationStart) + 'ms'
30	document.getElementById('loadtimes').innerHTML = times
31}
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45<div id="loadtimes"></div>
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124		<p>
125Go is a tool for managing Go source code.
126</p>
127<p>
128Usage:
129</p>
130<pre>go command [arguments]
131</pre>
132<p>
133The commands are:
134</p>
135<pre>build       compile packages and dependencies
136clean       remove object files
137doc         show documentation for package or symbol
138env         print Go environment information
139bug         start a bug report
140fix         run go tool fix on packages
141fmt         run gofmt on package sources
142generate    generate Go files by processing source
143get         download and install packages and dependencies
144install     compile and install packages and dependencies
145list        list packages
146run         compile and run Go program
147test        test packages
148tool        run specified go tool
149version     print Go version
150vet         run go tool vet on packages
151</pre>
152<p>
153Use &#34;go help [command]&#34; for more information about a command.
154</p>
155<p>
156Additional help topics:
157</p>
158<pre>c           calling between Go and C
159buildmode   description of build modes
160filetype    file types
161gopath      GOPATH environment variable
162environment environment variables
163importpath  import path syntax
164packages    description of package lists
165testflag    description of testing flags
166testfunc    description of testing functions
167</pre>
168<p>
169Use &#34;go help [topic]&#34; for more information about that topic.
170</p>
171<h3 id="hdr-Compile_packages_and_dependencies">Compile packages and dependencies</h3>
172<p>
173Usage:
174</p>
175<pre>go build [-o output] [-i] [build flags] [packages]
176</pre>
177<p>
178Build compiles the packages named by the import paths,
179along with their dependencies, but it does not install the results.
180</p>
181<p>
182If the arguments to build are a list of .go files, build treats
183them as a list of source files specifying a single package.
184</p>
185<p>
186When compiling a single main package, build writes
187the resulting executable to an output file named after
188the first source file (&#39;go build ed.go rx.go&#39; writes &#39;ed&#39; or &#39;ed.exe&#39;)
189or the source code directory (&#39;go build unix/sam&#39; writes &#39;sam&#39; or &#39;sam.exe&#39;).
190The &#39;.exe&#39; suffix is added when writing a Windows executable.
191</p>
192<p>
193When compiling multiple packages or a single non-main package,
194build compiles the packages but discards the resulting object,
195serving only as a check that the packages can be built.
196</p>
197<p>
198When compiling packages, build ignores files that end in &#39;_test.go&#39;.
199</p>
200<p>
201The -o flag, only allowed when compiling a single package,
202forces build to write the resulting executable or object
203to the named output file, instead of the default behavior described
204in the last two paragraphs.
205</p>
206<p>
207The -i flag installs the packages that are dependencies of the target.
208</p>
209<p>
210The build flags are shared by the build, clean, get, install, list, run,
211and test commands:
212</p>
213<pre>-a
214	force rebuilding of packages that are already up-to-date.
215-n
216	print the commands but do not run them.
217-p n
218	the number of programs, such as build commands or
219	test binaries, that can be run in parallel.
220	The default is the number of CPUs available.
221-race
222	enable data race detection.
223	Supported only on linux/amd64, freebsd/amd64, darwin/amd64 and windows/amd64.
224-msan
225	enable interoperation with memory sanitizer.
226	Supported only on linux/amd64,
227	and only with Clang/LLVM as the host C compiler.
228-v
229	print the names of packages as they are compiled.
230-work
231	print the name of the temporary work directory and
232	do not delete it when exiting.
233-x
234	print the commands.
235
236-asmflags &#39;flag list&#39;
237	arguments to pass on each go tool asm invocation.
238-buildmode mode
239	build mode to use. See &#39;go help buildmode&#39; for more.
240-compiler name
241	name of compiler to use, as in runtime.Compiler (gccgo or gc).
242-gccgoflags &#39;arg list&#39;
243	arguments to pass on each gccgo compiler/linker invocation.
244-gcflags &#39;arg list&#39;
245	arguments to pass on each go tool compile invocation.
246-installsuffix suffix
247	a suffix to use in the name of the package installation directory,
248	in order to keep output separate from default builds.
249	If using the -race flag, the install suffix is automatically set to race
250	or, if set explicitly, has _race appended to it.  Likewise for the -msan
251	flag.  Using a -buildmode option that requires non-default compile flags
252	has a similar effect.
253-ldflags &#39;flag list&#39;
254	arguments to pass on each go tool link invocation.
255-linkshared
256	link against shared libraries previously created with
257	-buildmode=shared.
258-pkgdir dir
259	install and load all packages from dir instead of the usual locations.
260	For example, when building with a non-standard configuration,
261	use -pkgdir to keep generated packages in a separate location.
262-tags &#39;tag list&#39;
263	a list of build tags to consider satisfied during the build.
264	For more information about build tags, see the description of
265	build constraints in the documentation for the go/build package.
266-toolexec &#39;cmd args&#39;
267	a program to use to invoke toolchain programs like vet and asm.
268	For example, instead of running asm, the go command will run
269	&#39;cmd args /path/to/asm &lt;arguments for asm&gt;&#39;.
270</pre>
271<p>
272The list flags accept a space-separated list of strings. To embed spaces
273in an element in the list, surround it with either single or double quotes.
274</p>
275<p>
276For more about specifying packages, see &#39;go help packages&#39;.
277For more about where packages and binaries are installed,
278run &#39;go help gopath&#39;.
279For more about calling between Go and C/C++, run &#39;go help c&#39;.
280</p>
281<p>
282Note: Build adheres to certain conventions such as those described
283by &#39;go help gopath&#39;. Not all projects can follow these conventions,
284however. Installations that have their own conventions or that use
285a separate software build system may choose to use lower-level
286invocations such as &#39;go tool compile&#39; and &#39;go tool link&#39; to avoid
287some of the overheads and design decisions of the build tool.
288</p>
289<p>
290See also: go install, go get, go clean.
291</p>
292<h3 id="hdr-Remove_object_files">Remove object files</h3>
293<p>
294Usage:
295</p>
296<pre>go clean [-i] [-r] [-n] [-x] [build flags] [packages]
297</pre>
298<p>
299Clean removes object files from package source directories.
300The go command builds most objects in a temporary directory,
301so go clean is mainly concerned with object files left by other
302tools or by manual invocations of go build.
303</p>
304<p>
305Specifically, clean removes the following files from each of the
306source directories corresponding to the import paths:
307</p>
308<pre>_obj/            old object directory, left from Makefiles
309_test/           old test directory, left from Makefiles
310_testmain.go     old gotest file, left from Makefiles
311test.out         old test log, left from Makefiles
312build.out        old test log, left from Makefiles
313*.[568ao]        object files, left from Makefiles
314
315DIR(.exe)        from go build
316DIR.test(.exe)   from go test -c
317MAINFILE(.exe)   from go build MAINFILE.go
318*.so             from SWIG
319</pre>
320<p>
321In the list, DIR represents the final path element of the
322directory, and MAINFILE is the base name of any Go source
323file in the directory that is not included when building
324the package.
325</p>
326<p>
327The -i flag causes clean to remove the corresponding installed
328archive or binary (what &#39;go install&#39; would create).
329</p>
330<p>
331The -n flag causes clean to print the remove commands it would execute,
332but not run them.
333</p>
334<p>
335The -r flag causes clean to be applied recursively to all the
336dependencies of the packages named by the import paths.
337</p>
338<p>
339The -x flag causes clean to print remove commands as it executes them.
340</p>
341<p>
342For more about build flags, see &#39;go help build&#39;.
343</p>
344<p>
345For more about specifying packages, see &#39;go help packages&#39;.
346</p>
347<h3 id="hdr-Show_documentation_for_package_or_symbol">Show documentation for package or symbol</h3>
348<p>
349Usage:
350</p>
351<pre>go doc [-u] [-c] [package|[package.]symbol[.method]]
352</pre>
353<p>
354Doc prints the documentation comments associated with the item identified by its
355arguments (a package, const, func, type, var, or method) followed by a one-line
356summary of each of the first-level items &#34;under&#34; that item (package-level
357declarations for a package, methods for a type, etc.).
358</p>
359<p>
360Doc accepts zero, one, or two arguments.
361</p>
362<p>
363Given no arguments, that is, when run as
364</p>
365<pre>go doc
366</pre>
367<p>
368it prints the package documentation for the package in the current directory.
369If the package is a command (package main), the exported symbols of the package
370are elided from the presentation unless the -cmd flag is provided.
371</p>
372<p>
373When run with one argument, the argument is treated as a Go-syntax-like
374representation of the item to be documented. What the argument selects depends
375on what is installed in GOROOT and GOPATH, as well as the form of the argument,
376which is schematically one of these:
377</p>
378<pre>go doc &lt;pkg&gt;
379go doc &lt;sym&gt;[.&lt;method&gt;]
380go doc [&lt;pkg&gt;.]&lt;sym&gt;[.&lt;method&gt;]
381go doc [&lt;pkg&gt;.][&lt;sym&gt;.]&lt;method&gt;
382</pre>
383<p>
384The first item in this list matched by the argument is the one whose documentation
385is printed. (See the examples below.) However, if the argument starts with a capital
386letter it is assumed to identify a symbol or method in the current directory.
387</p>
388<p>
389For packages, the order of scanning is determined lexically in breadth-first order.
390That is, the package presented is the one that matches the search and is nearest
391the root and lexically first at its level of the hierarchy.  The GOROOT tree is
392always scanned in its entirety before GOPATH.
393</p>
394<p>
395If there is no package specified or matched, the package in the current
396directory is selected, so &#34;go doc Foo&#34; shows the documentation for symbol Foo in
397the current package.
398</p>
399<p>
400The package path must be either a qualified path or a proper suffix of a
401path. The go tool&#39;s usual package mechanism does not apply: package path
402elements like . and ... are not implemented by go doc.
403</p>
404<p>
405When run with two arguments, the first must be a full package path (not just a
406suffix), and the second is a symbol or symbol and method; this is similar to the
407syntax accepted by godoc:
408</p>
409<pre>go doc &lt;pkg&gt; &lt;sym&gt;[.&lt;method&gt;]
410</pre>
411<p>
412In all forms, when matching symbols, lower-case letters in the argument match
413either case but upper-case letters match exactly. This means that there may be
414multiple matches of a lower-case argument in a package if different symbols have
415different cases. If this occurs, documentation for all matches is printed.
416</p>
417<p>
418Examples:
419</p>
420<pre>go doc
421	Show documentation for current package.
422go doc Foo
423	Show documentation for Foo in the current package.
424	(Foo starts with a capital letter so it cannot match
425	a package path.)
426go doc encoding/json
427	Show documentation for the encoding/json package.
428go doc json
429	Shorthand for encoding/json.
430go doc json.Number (or go doc json.number)
431	Show documentation and method summary for json.Number.
432go doc json.Number.Int64 (or go doc json.number.int64)
433	Show documentation for json.Number&#39;s Int64 method.
434go doc cmd/doc
435	Show package docs for the doc command.
436go doc -cmd cmd/doc
437	Show package docs and exported symbols within the doc command.
438go doc template.new
439	Show documentation for html/template&#39;s New function.
440	(html/template is lexically before text/template)
441go doc text/template.new # One argument
442	Show documentation for text/template&#39;s New function.
443go doc text/template new # Two arguments
444	Show documentation for text/template&#39;s New function.
445
446At least in the current tree, these invocations all print the
447documentation for json.Decoder&#39;s Decode method:
448
449go doc json.Decoder.Decode
450go doc json.decoder.decode
451go doc json.decode
452cd go/src/encoding/json; go doc decode
453</pre>
454<p>
455Flags:
456</p>
457<pre>-c
458	Respect case when matching symbols.
459-cmd
460	Treat a command (package main) like a regular package.
461	Otherwise package main&#39;s exported symbols are hidden
462	when showing the package&#39;s top-level documentation.
463-u
464	Show documentation for unexported as well as exported
465	symbols and methods.
466</pre>
467<h3 id="hdr-Print_Go_environment_information">Print Go environment information</h3>
468<p>
469Usage:
470</p>
471<pre>go env [var ...]
472</pre>
473<p>
474Env prints Go environment information.
475</p>
476<p>
477By default env prints information as a shell script
478(on Windows, a batch file).  If one or more variable
479names is given as arguments,  env prints the value of
480each named variable on its own line.
481</p>
482<h3 id="hdr-Start_a_bug_report">Start a bug report</h3>
483<p>
484Usage:
485</p>
486<pre>go bug
487</pre>
488<p>
489Bug opens the default browser and starts a new bug report.
490The report includes useful system information.
491</p>
492<h3 id="hdr-Run_go_tool_fix_on_packages">Run go tool fix on packages</h3>
493<p>
494Usage:
495</p>
496<pre>go fix [packages]
497</pre>
498<p>
499Fix runs the Go fix command on the packages named by the import paths.
500</p>
501<p>
502For more about fix, see &#39;go doc cmd/fix&#39;.
503For more about specifying packages, see &#39;go help packages&#39;.
504</p>
505<p>
506To run fix with specific options, run &#39;go tool fix&#39;.
507</p>
508<p>
509See also: go fmt, go vet.
510</p>
511<h3 id="hdr-Run_gofmt_on_package_sources">Run gofmt on package sources</h3>
512<p>
513Usage:
514</p>
515<pre>go fmt [-n] [-x] [packages]
516</pre>
517<p>
518Fmt runs the command &#39;gofmt -l -w&#39; on the packages named
519by the import paths.  It prints the names of the files that are modified.
520</p>
521<p>
522For more about gofmt, see &#39;go doc cmd/gofmt&#39;.
523For more about specifying packages, see &#39;go help packages&#39;.
524</p>
525<p>
526The -n flag prints commands that would be executed.
527The -x flag prints commands as they are executed.
528</p>
529<p>
530To run gofmt with specific options, run gofmt itself.
531</p>
532<p>
533See also: go fix, go vet.
534</p>
535<h3 id="hdr-Generate_Go_files_by_processing_source">Generate Go files by processing source</h3>
536<p>
537Usage:
538</p>
539<pre>go generate [-run regexp] [-n] [-v] [-x] [build flags] [file.go... | packages]
540</pre>
541<p>
542Generate runs commands described by directives within existing
543files. Those commands can run any process but the intent is to
544create or update Go source files.
545</p>
546<p>
547Go generate is never run automatically by go build, go get, go test,
548and so on. It must be run explicitly.
549</p>
550<p>
551Go generate scans the file for directives, which are lines of
552the form,
553</p>
554<pre>//go:generate command argument...
555</pre>
556<p>
557(note: no leading spaces and no space in &#34;//go&#34;) where command
558is the generator to be run, corresponding to an executable file
559that can be run locally. It must either be in the shell path
560(gofmt), a fully qualified path (/usr/you/bin/mytool), or a
561command alias, described below.
562</p>
563<p>
564Note that go generate does not parse the file, so lines that look
565like directives in comments or multiline strings will be treated
566as directives.
567</p>
568<p>
569The arguments to the directive are space-separated tokens or
570double-quoted strings passed to the generator as individual
571arguments when it is run.
572</p>
573<p>
574Quoted strings use Go syntax and are evaluated before execution; a
575quoted string appears as a single argument to the generator.
576</p>
577<p>
578Go generate sets several variables when it runs the generator:
579</p>
580<pre>$GOARCH
581	The execution architecture (arm, amd64, etc.)
582$GOOS
583	The execution operating system (linux, windows, etc.)
584$GOFILE
585	The base name of the file.
586$GOLINE
587	The line number of the directive in the source file.
588$GOPACKAGE
589	The name of the package of the file containing the directive.
590$DOLLAR
591	A dollar sign.
592</pre>
593<p>
594Other than variable substitution and quoted-string evaluation, no
595special processing such as &#34;globbing&#34; is performed on the command
596line.
597</p>
598<p>
599As a last step before running the command, any invocations of any
600environment variables with alphanumeric names, such as $GOFILE or
601$HOME, are expanded throughout the command line. The syntax for
602variable expansion is $NAME on all operating systems.  Due to the
603order of evaluation, variables are expanded even inside quoted
604strings. If the variable NAME is not set, $NAME expands to the
605empty string.
606</p>
607<p>
608A directive of the form,
609</p>
610<pre>//go:generate -command xxx args...
611</pre>
612<p>
613specifies, for the remainder of this source file only, that the
614string xxx represents the command identified by the arguments. This
615can be used to create aliases or to handle multiword generators.
616For example,
617</p>
618<pre>//go:generate -command foo go tool foo
619</pre>
620<p>
621specifies that the command &#34;foo&#34; represents the generator
622&#34;go tool foo&#34;.
623</p>
624<p>
625Generate processes packages in the order given on the command line,
626one at a time. If the command line lists .go files, they are treated
627as a single package. Within a package, generate processes the
628source files in a package in file name order, one at a time. Within
629a source file, generate runs generators in the order they appear
630in the file, one at a time.
631</p>
632<p>
633If any generator returns an error exit status, &#34;go generate&#34; skips
634all further processing for that package.
635</p>
636<p>
637The generator is run in the package&#39;s source directory.
638</p>
639<p>
640Go generate accepts one specific flag:
641</p>
642<pre>-run=&#34;&#34;
643	if non-empty, specifies a regular expression to select
644	directives whose full original source text (excluding
645	any trailing spaces and final newline) matches the
646	expression.
647</pre>
648<p>
649It also accepts the standard build flags including -v, -n, and -x.
650The -v flag prints the names of packages and files as they are
651processed.
652The -n flag prints commands that would be executed.
653The -x flag prints commands as they are executed.
654</p>
655<p>
656For more about build flags, see &#39;go help build&#39;.
657</p>
658<p>
659For more about specifying packages, see &#39;go help packages&#39;.
660</p>
661<h3 id="hdr-Download_and_install_packages_and_dependencies">Download and install packages and dependencies</h3>
662<p>
663Usage:
664</p>
665<pre>go get [-d] [-f] [-fix] [-insecure] [-t] [-u] [build flags] [packages]
666</pre>
667<p>
668Get downloads the packages named by the import paths, along with their
669dependencies. It then installs the named packages, like &#39;go install&#39;.
670</p>
671<p>
672The -d flag instructs get to stop after downloading the packages; that is,
673it instructs get not to install the packages.
674</p>
675<p>
676The -f flag, valid only when -u is set, forces get -u not to verify that
677each package has been checked out from the source control repository
678implied by its import path. This can be useful if the source is a local fork
679of the original.
680</p>
681<p>
682The -fix flag instructs get to run the fix tool on the downloaded packages
683before resolving dependencies or building the code.
684</p>
685<p>
686The -insecure flag permits fetching from repositories and resolving
687custom domains using insecure schemes such as HTTP. Use with caution.
688</p>
689<p>
690The -t flag instructs get to also download the packages required to build
691the tests for the specified packages.
692</p>
693<p>
694The -u flag instructs get to use the network to update the named packages
695and their dependencies.  By default, get uses the network to check out
696missing packages but does not use it to look for updates to existing packages.
697</p>
698<p>
699The -v flag enables verbose progress and debug output.
700</p>
701<p>
702Get also accepts build flags to control the installation. See &#39;go help build&#39;.
703</p>
704<p>
705When checking out a new package, get creates the target directory
706GOPATH/src/&lt;import-path&gt;. If the GOPATH contains multiple entries,
707get uses the first one. For more details see: &#39;go help gopath&#39;.
708</p>
709<p>
710When checking out or updating a package, get looks for a branch or tag
711that matches the locally installed version of Go. The most important
712rule is that if the local installation is running version &#34;go1&#34;, get
713searches for a branch or tag named &#34;go1&#34;. If no such version exists it
714retrieves the most recent version of the package.
715</p>
716<p>
717When go get checks out or updates a Git repository,
718it also updates any git submodules referenced by the repository.
719</p>
720<p>
721Get never checks out or updates code stored in vendor directories.
722</p>
723<p>
724For more about specifying packages, see &#39;go help packages&#39;.
725</p>
726<p>
727For more about how &#39;go get&#39; finds source code to
728download, see &#39;go help importpath&#39;.
729</p>
730<p>
731See also: go build, go install, go clean.
732</p>
733<h3 id="hdr-Compile_and_install_packages_and_dependencies">Compile and install packages and dependencies</h3>
734<p>
735Usage:
736</p>
737<pre>go install [build flags] [packages]
738</pre>
739<p>
740Install compiles and installs the packages named by the import paths,
741along with their dependencies.
742</p>
743<p>
744For more about the build flags, see &#39;go help build&#39;.
745For more about specifying packages, see &#39;go help packages&#39;.
746</p>
747<p>
748See also: go build, go get, go clean.
749</p>
750<h3 id="hdr-List_packages">List packages</h3>
751<p>
752Usage:
753</p>
754<pre>go list [-e] [-f format] [-json] [build flags] [packages]
755</pre>
756<p>
757List lists the packages named by the import paths, one per line.
758</p>
759<p>
760The default output shows the package import path:
761</p>
762<pre>bytes
763encoding/json
764github.com/gorilla/mux
765golang.org/x/net/html
766</pre>
767<p>
768The -f flag specifies an alternate format for the list, using the
769syntax of package template.  The default output is equivalent to -f
770&#39;&#39;. The struct being passed to the template is:
771</p>
772<pre>type Package struct {
773    Dir           string // directory containing package sources
774    ImportPath    string // import path of package in dir
775    ImportComment string // path in import comment on package statement
776    Name          string // package name
777    Doc           string // package documentation string
778    Target        string // install path
779    Shlib         string // the shared library that contains this package (only set when -linkshared)
780    Goroot        bool   // is this package in the Go root?
781    Standard      bool   // is this package part of the standard Go library?
782    Stale         bool   // would &#39;go install&#39; do anything for this package?
783    StaleReason   string // explanation for Stale==true
784    Root          string // Go root or Go path dir containing this package
785    ConflictDir   string // this directory shadows Dir in $GOPATH
786    BinaryOnly    bool   // binary-only package: cannot be recompiled from sources
787
788    // Source files
789    GoFiles        []string // .go source files (excluding CgoFiles, TestGoFiles, XTestGoFiles)
790    CgoFiles       []string // .go sources files that import &#34;C&#34;
791    IgnoredGoFiles []string // .go sources ignored due to build constraints
792    CFiles         []string // .c source files
793    CXXFiles       []string // .cc, .cxx and .cpp source files
794    MFiles         []string // .m source files
795    HFiles         []string // .h, .hh, .hpp and .hxx source files
796    FFiles         []string // .f, .F, .for and .f90 Fortran source files
797    SFiles         []string // .s source files
798    SwigFiles      []string // .swig files
799    SwigCXXFiles   []string // .swigcxx files
800    SysoFiles      []string // .syso object files to add to archive
801    TestGoFiles    []string // _test.go files in package
802    XTestGoFiles   []string // _test.go files outside package
803
804    // Cgo directives
805    CgoCFLAGS    []string // cgo: flags for C compiler
806    CgoCPPFLAGS  []string // cgo: flags for C preprocessor
807    CgoCXXFLAGS  []string // cgo: flags for C++ compiler
808    CgoFFLAGS    []string // cgo: flags for Fortran compiler
809    CgoLDFLAGS   []string // cgo: flags for linker
810    CgoPkgConfig []string // cgo: pkg-config names
811
812    // Dependency information
813    Imports      []string // import paths used by this package
814    Deps         []string // all (recursively) imported dependencies
815    TestImports  []string // imports from TestGoFiles
816    XTestImports []string // imports from XTestGoFiles
817
818    // Error information
819    Incomplete bool            // this package or a dependency has an error
820    Error      *PackageError   // error loading package
821    DepsErrors []*PackageError // errors loading dependencies
822}
823</pre>
824<p>
825Packages stored in vendor directories report an ImportPath that includes the
826path to the vendor directory (for example, &#34;d/vendor/p&#34; instead of &#34;p&#34;),
827so that the ImportPath uniquely identifies a given copy of a package.
828The Imports, Deps, TestImports, and XTestImports lists also contain these
829expanded imports paths. See golang.org/s/go15vendor for more about vendoring.
830</p>
831<p>
832The error information, if any, is
833</p>
834<pre>type PackageError struct {
835    ImportStack   []string // shortest path from package named on command line to this one
836    Pos           string   // position of error (if present, file:line:col)
837    Err           string   // the error itself
838}
839</pre>
840<p>
841The template function &#34;join&#34; calls strings.Join.
842</p>
843<p>
844The template function &#34;context&#34; returns the build context, defined as:
845</p>
846<pre>type Context struct {
847	GOARCH        string   // target architecture
848	GOOS          string   // target operating system
849	GOROOT        string   // Go root
850	GOPATH        string   // Go path
851	CgoEnabled    bool     // whether cgo can be used
852	UseAllFiles   bool     // use files regardless of +build lines, file names
853	Compiler      string   // compiler to assume when computing target paths
854	BuildTags     []string // build constraints to match in +build lines
855	ReleaseTags   []string // releases the current release is compatible with
856	InstallSuffix string   // suffix to use in the name of the install dir
857}
858</pre>
859<p>
860For more information about the meaning of these fields see the documentation
861for the go/build package&#39;s Context type.
862</p>
863<p>
864The -json flag causes the package data to be printed in JSON format
865instead of using the template format.
866</p>
867<p>
868The -e flag changes the handling of erroneous packages, those that
869cannot be found or are malformed.  By default, the list command
870prints an error to standard error for each erroneous package and
871omits the packages from consideration during the usual printing.
872With the -e flag, the list command never prints errors to standard
873error and instead processes the erroneous packages with the usual
874printing.  Erroneous packages will have a non-empty ImportPath and
875a non-nil Error field; other information may or may not be missing
876(zeroed).
877</p>
878<p>
879For more about build flags, see &#39;go help build&#39;.
880</p>
881<p>
882For more about specifying packages, see &#39;go help packages&#39;.
883</p>
884<h3 id="hdr-Compile_and_run_Go_program">Compile and run Go program</h3>
885<p>
886Usage:
887</p>
888<pre>go run [build flags] [-exec xprog] gofiles... [arguments...]
889</pre>
890<p>
891Run compiles and runs the main package comprising the named Go source files.
892A Go source file is defined to be a file ending in a literal &#34;.go&#34; suffix.
893</p>
894<p>
895By default, &#39;go run&#39; runs the compiled binary directly: &#39;a.out arguments...&#39;.
896If the -exec flag is given, &#39;go run&#39; invokes the binary using xprog:
897</p>
898<pre>&#39;xprog a.out arguments...&#39;.
899</pre>
900<p>
901If the -exec flag is not given, GOOS or GOARCH is different from the system
902default, and a program named go_$GOOS_$GOARCH_exec can be found
903on the current search path, &#39;go run&#39; invokes the binary using that program,
904for example &#39;go_nacl_386_exec a.out arguments...&#39;. This allows execution of
905cross-compiled programs when a simulator or other execution method is
906available.
907</p>
908<p>
909For more about build flags, see &#39;go help build&#39;.
910</p>
911<p>
912See also: go build.
913</p>
914<h3 id="hdr-Test_packages">Test packages</h3>
915<p>
916Usage:
917</p>
918<pre>go test [build/test flags] [packages] [build/test flags &amp; test binary flags]
919</pre>
920<p>
921&#39;Go test&#39; automates testing the packages named by the import paths.
922It prints a summary of the test results in the format:
923</p>
924<pre>ok   archive/tar   0.011s
925FAIL archive/zip   0.022s
926ok   compress/gzip 0.033s
927...
928</pre>
929<p>
930followed by detailed output for each failed package.
931</p>
932<p>
933&#39;Go test&#39; recompiles each package along with any files with names matching
934the file pattern &#34;*_test.go&#34;.
935Files whose names begin with &#34;_&#34; (including &#34;_test.go&#34;) or &#34;.&#34; are ignored.
936These additional files can contain test functions, benchmark functions, and
937example functions.  See &#39;go help testfunc&#39; for more.
938Each listed package causes the execution of a separate test binary.
939</p>
940<p>
941Test files that declare a package with the suffix &#34;_test&#34; will be compiled as a
942separate package, and then linked and run with the main test binary.
943</p>
944<p>
945The go tool will ignore a directory named &#34;testdata&#34;, making it available
946to hold ancillary data needed by the tests.
947</p>
948<p>
949By default, go test needs no arguments.  It compiles and tests the package
950with source in the current directory, including tests, and runs the tests.
951</p>
952<p>
953The package is built in a temporary directory so it does not interfere with the
954non-test installation.
955</p>
956<p>
957In addition to the build flags, the flags handled by &#39;go test&#39; itself are:
958</p>
959<pre>-args
960    Pass the remainder of the command line (everything after -args)
961    to the test binary, uninterpreted and unchanged.
962    Because this flag consumes the remainder of the command line,
963    the package list (if present) must appear before this flag.
964
965-c
966    Compile the test binary to pkg.test but do not run it
967    (where pkg is the last element of the package&#39;s import path).
968    The file name can be changed with the -o flag.
969
970-exec xprog
971    Run the test binary using xprog. The behavior is the same as
972    in &#39;go run&#39;. See &#39;go help run&#39; for details.
973
974-i
975    Install packages that are dependencies of the test.
976    Do not run the test.
977
978-o file
979    Compile the test binary to the named file.
980    The test still runs (unless -c or -i is specified).
981</pre>
982<p>
983The test binary also accepts flags that control execution of the test; these
984flags are also accessible by &#39;go test&#39;. See &#39;go help testflag&#39; for details.
985</p>
986<p>
987For more about build flags, see &#39;go help build&#39;.
988For more about specifying packages, see &#39;go help packages&#39;.
989</p>
990<p>
991See also: go build, go vet.
992</p>
993<h3 id="hdr-Run_specified_go_tool">Run specified go tool</h3>
994<p>
995Usage:
996</p>
997<pre>go tool [-n] command [args...]
998</pre>
999<p>
1000Tool runs the go tool command identified by the arguments.
1001With no arguments it prints the list of known tools.
1002</p>
1003<p>
1004The -n flag causes tool to print the command that would be
1005executed but not execute it.
1006</p>
1007<p>
1008For more about each tool command, see &#39;go tool command -h&#39;.
1009</p>
1010<h3 id="hdr-Print_Go_version">Print Go version</h3>
1011<p>
1012Usage:
1013</p>
1014<pre>go version
1015</pre>
1016<p>
1017Version prints the Go version, as reported by runtime.Version.
1018</p>
1019<h3 id="hdr-Run_go_tool_vet_on_packages">Run go tool vet on packages</h3>
1020<p>
1021Usage:
1022</p>
1023<pre>go vet [-n] [-x] [build flags] [packages]
1024</pre>
1025<p>
1026Vet runs the Go vet command on the packages named by the import paths.
1027</p>
1028<p>
1029For more about vet, see &#39;go doc cmd/vet&#39;.
1030For more about specifying packages, see &#39;go help packages&#39;.
1031</p>
1032<p>
1033To run the vet tool with specific options, run &#39;go tool vet&#39;.
1034</p>
1035<p>
1036The -n flag prints commands that would be executed.
1037The -x flag prints commands as they are executed.
1038</p>
1039<p>
1040For more about build flags, see &#39;go help build&#39;.
1041</p>
1042<p>
1043See also: go fmt, go fix.
1044</p>
1045<h3 id="hdr-Calling_between_Go_and_C">Calling between Go and C</h3>
1046<p>
1047There are two different ways to call between Go and C/C++ code.
1048</p>
1049<p>
1050The first is the cgo tool, which is part of the Go distribution.  For
1051information on how to use it see the cgo documentation (go doc cmd/cgo).
1052</p>
1053<p>
1054The second is the SWIG program, which is a general tool for
1055interfacing between languages.  For information on SWIG see
1056<a href="http://swig.org/">http://swig.org/</a>.  When running go build, any file with a .swig
1057extension will be passed to SWIG.  Any file with a .swigcxx extension
1058will be passed to SWIG with the -c++ option.
1059</p>
1060<p>
1061When either cgo or SWIG is used, go build will pass any .c, .m, .s,
1062or .S files to the C compiler, and any .cc, .cpp, .cxx files to the C++
1063compiler.  The CC or CXX environment variables may be set to determine
1064the C or C++ compiler, respectively, to use.
1065</p>
1066<h3 id="hdr-Description_of_build_modes">Description of build modes</h3>
1067<p>
1068The &#39;go build&#39; and &#39;go install&#39; commands take a -buildmode argument which
1069indicates which kind of object file is to be built. Currently supported values
1070are:
1071</p>
1072<pre>-buildmode=archive
1073	Build the listed non-main packages into .a files. Packages named
1074	main are ignored.
1075
1076-buildmode=c-archive
1077	Build the listed main package, plus all packages it imports,
1078	into a C archive file. The only callable symbols will be those
1079	functions exported using a cgo //export comment. Requires
1080	exactly one main package to be listed.
1081
1082-buildmode=c-shared
1083	Build the listed main packages, plus all packages that they
1084	import, into C shared libraries. The only callable symbols will
1085	be those functions exported using a cgo //export comment.
1086	Non-main packages are ignored.
1087
1088-buildmode=default
1089	Listed main packages are built into executables and listed
1090	non-main packages are built into .a files (the default
1091	behavior).
1092
1093-buildmode=shared
1094	Combine all the listed non-main packages into a single shared
1095	library that will be used when building with the -linkshared
1096	option. Packages named main are ignored.
1097
1098-buildmode=exe
1099	Build the listed main packages and everything they import into
1100	executables. Packages not named main are ignored.
1101
1102-buildmode=pie
1103	Build the listed main packages and everything they import into
1104	position independent executables (PIE). Packages not named
1105	main are ignored.
1106
1107-buildmode=plugin
1108	Build the listed main packages, plus all packages that they
1109	import, into a Go plugin. Packages not named main are ignored.
1110</pre>
1111<h3 id="hdr-File_types">File types</h3>
1112<p>
1113The go command examines the contents of a restricted set of files
1114in each directory. It identifies which files to examine based on
1115the extension of the file name. These extensions are:
1116</p>
1117<pre>.go
1118	Go source files.
1119.c, .h
1120	C source files.
1121	If the package uses cgo or SWIG, these will be compiled with the
1122	OS-native compiler (typically gcc); otherwise they will
1123	trigger an error.
1124.cc, .cpp, .cxx, .hh, .hpp, .hxx
1125	C++ source files. Only useful with cgo or SWIG, and always
1126	compiled with the OS-native compiler.
1127.m
1128	Objective-C source files. Only useful with cgo, and always
1129	compiled with the OS-native compiler.
1130.s, .S
1131	Assembler source files.
1132	If the package uses cgo or SWIG, these will be assembled with the
1133	OS-native assembler (typically gcc (sic)); otherwise they
1134	will be assembled with the Go assembler.
1135.swig, .swigcxx
1136	SWIG definition files.
1137.syso
1138	System object files.
1139</pre>
1140<p>
1141Files of each of these types except .syso may contain build
1142constraints, but the go command stops scanning for build constraints
1143at the first item in the file that is not a blank line or //-style
1144line comment. See the go/build package documentation for
1145more details.
1146</p>
1147<p>
1148Non-test Go source files can also include a //go:binary-only-package
1149comment, indicating that the package sources are included
1150for documentation only and must not be used to build the
1151package binary. This enables distribution of Go packages in
1152their compiled form alone. See the go/build package documentation
1153for more details.
1154</p>
1155<h3 id="hdr-GOPATH_environment_variable">GOPATH environment variable</h3>
1156<p>
1157The Go path is used to resolve import statements.
1158It is implemented by and documented in the go/build package.
1159</p>
1160<p>
1161The GOPATH environment variable lists places to look for Go code.
1162On Unix, the value is a colon-separated string.
1163On Windows, the value is a semicolon-separated string.
1164On Plan 9, the value is a list.
1165</p>
1166<p>
1167If the environment variable is unset, GOPATH defaults
1168to a subdirectory named &#34;go&#34; in the user&#39;s home directory
1169($HOME/go on Unix, %USERPROFILE%\go on Windows),
1170unless that directory holds a Go distribution.
1171Run &#34;go env GOPATH&#34; to see the current GOPATH.
1172</p>
1173<p>
1174See <a href="https://golang.org/wiki/SettingGOPATH">https://golang.org/wiki/SettingGOPATH</a> to set a custom GOPATH.
1175</p>
1176<p>
1177Each directory listed in GOPATH must have a prescribed structure:
1178</p>
1179<p>
1180The src directory holds source code.  The path below src
1181determines the import path or executable name.
1182</p>
1183<p>
1184The pkg directory holds installed package objects.
1185As in the Go tree, each target operating system and
1186architecture pair has its own subdirectory of pkg
1187(pkg/GOOS_GOARCH).
1188</p>
1189<p>
1190If DIR is a directory listed in the GOPATH, a package with
1191source in DIR/src/foo/bar can be imported as &#34;foo/bar&#34; and
1192has its compiled form installed to &#34;DIR/pkg/GOOS_GOARCH/foo/bar.a&#34;.
1193</p>
1194<p>
1195The bin directory holds compiled commands.
1196Each command is named for its source directory, but only
1197the final element, not the entire path.  That is, the
1198command with source in DIR/src/foo/quux is installed into
1199DIR/bin/quux, not DIR/bin/foo/quux.  The &#34;foo/&#34; prefix is stripped
1200so that you can add DIR/bin to your PATH to get at the
1201installed commands.  If the GOBIN environment variable is
1202set, commands are installed to the directory it names instead
1203of DIR/bin. GOBIN must be an absolute path.
1204</p>
1205<p>
1206Here&#39;s an example directory layout:
1207</p>
1208<pre>GOPATH=/home/user/go
1209
1210/home/user/go/
1211    src/
1212        foo/
1213            bar/               (go code in package bar)
1214                x.go
1215            quux/              (go code in package main)
1216                y.go
1217    bin/
1218        quux                   (installed command)
1219    pkg/
1220        linux_amd64/
1221            foo/
1222                bar.a          (installed package object)
1223</pre>
1224<p>
1225Go searches each directory listed in GOPATH to find source code,
1226but new packages are always downloaded into the first directory
1227in the list.
1228</p>
1229<p>
1230See <a href="https://golang.org/doc/code.html">https://golang.org/doc/code.html</a> for an example.
1231</p>
1232<h3 id="hdr-Internal_Directories">Internal Directories</h3>
1233<p>
1234Code in or below a directory named &#34;internal&#34; is importable only
1235by code in the directory tree rooted at the parent of &#34;internal&#34;.
1236Here&#39;s an extended version of the directory layout above:
1237</p>
1238<pre>/home/user/go/
1239    src/
1240        crash/
1241            bang/              (go code in package bang)
1242                b.go
1243        foo/                   (go code in package foo)
1244            f.go
1245            bar/               (go code in package bar)
1246                x.go
1247            internal/
1248                baz/           (go code in package baz)
1249                    z.go
1250            quux/              (go code in package main)
1251                y.go
1252</pre>
1253<p>
1254The code in z.go is imported as &#34;foo/internal/baz&#34;, but that
1255import statement can only appear in source files in the subtree
1256rooted at foo. The source files foo/f.go, foo/bar/x.go, and
1257foo/quux/y.go can all import &#34;foo/internal/baz&#34;, but the source file
1258crash/bang/b.go cannot.
1259</p>
1260<p>
1261See <a href="https://golang.org/s/go14internal">https://golang.org/s/go14internal</a> for details.
1262</p>
1263<h3 id="hdr-Vendor_Directories">Vendor Directories</h3>
1264<p>
1265Go 1.6 includes support for using local copies of external dependencies
1266to satisfy imports of those dependencies, often referred to as vendoring.
1267</p>
1268<p>
1269Code below a directory named &#34;vendor&#34; is importable only
1270by code in the directory tree rooted at the parent of &#34;vendor&#34;,
1271and only using an import path that omits the prefix up to and
1272including the vendor element.
1273</p>
1274<p>
1275Here&#39;s the example from the previous section,
1276but with the &#34;internal&#34; directory renamed to &#34;vendor&#34;
1277and a new foo/vendor/crash/bang directory added:
1278</p>
1279<pre>/home/user/go/
1280    src/
1281        crash/
1282            bang/              (go code in package bang)
1283                b.go
1284        foo/                   (go code in package foo)
1285            f.go
1286            bar/               (go code in package bar)
1287                x.go
1288            vendor/
1289                crash/
1290                    bang/      (go code in package bang)
1291                        b.go
1292                baz/           (go code in package baz)
1293                    z.go
1294            quux/              (go code in package main)
1295                y.go
1296</pre>
1297<p>
1298The same visibility rules apply as for internal, but the code
1299in z.go is imported as &#34;baz&#34;, not as &#34;foo/vendor/baz&#34;.
1300</p>
1301<p>
1302Code in vendor directories deeper in the source tree shadows
1303code in higher directories. Within the subtree rooted at foo, an import
1304of &#34;crash/bang&#34; resolves to &#34;foo/vendor/crash/bang&#34;, not the
1305top-level &#34;crash/bang&#34;.
1306</p>
1307<p>
1308Code in vendor directories is not subject to import path
1309checking (see &#39;go help importpath&#39;).
1310</p>
1311<p>
1312When &#39;go get&#39; checks out or updates a git repository, it now also
1313updates submodules.
1314</p>
1315<p>
1316Vendor directories do not affect the placement of new repositories
1317being checked out for the first time by &#39;go get&#39;: those are always
1318placed in the main GOPATH, never in a vendor subtree.
1319</p>
1320<p>
1321See <a href="https://golang.org/s/go15vendor">https://golang.org/s/go15vendor</a> for details.
1322</p>
1323<h3 id="hdr-Environment_variables">Environment variables</h3>
1324<p>
1325The go command, and the tools it invokes, examine a few different
1326environment variables. For many of these, you can see the default
1327value of on your system by running &#39;go env NAME&#39;, where NAME is the
1328name of the variable.
1329</p>
1330<p>
1331General-purpose environment variables:
1332</p>
1333<pre>GCCGO
1334	The gccgo command to run for &#39;go build -compiler=gccgo&#39;.
1335GOARCH
1336	The architecture, or processor, for which to compile code.
1337	Examples are amd64, 386, arm, ppc64.
1338GOBIN
1339	The directory where &#39;go install&#39; will install a command.
1340GOOS
1341	The operating system for which to compile code.
1342	Examples are linux, darwin, windows, netbsd.
1343GOPATH
1344	For more details see: &#39;go help gopath&#39;.
1345GORACE
1346	Options for the race detector.
1347	See <a href="https://golang.org/doc/articles/race_detector.html">https://golang.org/doc/articles/race_detector.html</a>.
1348GOROOT
1349	The root of the go tree.
1350</pre>
1351<p>
1352Environment variables for use with cgo:
1353</p>
1354<pre>CC
1355	The command to use to compile C code.
1356CGO_ENABLED
1357	Whether the cgo command is supported.  Either 0 or 1.
1358CGO_CFLAGS
1359	Flags that cgo will pass to the compiler when compiling
1360	C code.
1361CGO_CPPFLAGS
1362	Flags that cgo will pass to the compiler when compiling
1363	C or C++ code.
1364CGO_CXXFLAGS
1365	Flags that cgo will pass to the compiler when compiling
1366	C++ code.
1367CGO_FFLAGS
1368	Flags that cgo will pass to the compiler when compiling
1369	Fortran code.
1370CGO_LDFLAGS
1371	Flags that cgo will pass to the compiler when linking.
1372CXX
1373	The command to use to compile C++ code.
1374PKG_CONFIG
1375	Path to pkg-config tool.
1376</pre>
1377<p>
1378Architecture-specific environment variables:
1379</p>
1380<pre>GOARM
1381	For GOARCH=arm, the ARM architecture for which to compile.
1382	Valid values are 5, 6, 7.
1383GO386
1384	For GOARCH=386, the floating point instruction set.
1385	Valid values are 387, sse2.
1386</pre>
1387<p>
1388Special-purpose environment variables:
1389</p>
1390<pre>GOROOT_FINAL
1391	The root of the installed Go tree, when it is
1392	installed in a location other than where it is built.
1393	File names in stack traces are rewritten from GOROOT to
1394	GOROOT_FINAL.
1395GO_EXTLINK_ENABLED
1396	Whether the linker should use external linking mode
1397	when using -linkmode=auto with code that uses cgo.
1398	Set to 0 to disable external linking mode, 1 to enable it.
1399GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL
1400	Defined by Git. A colon-separated list of schemes that are allowed to be used
1401	with git fetch/clone. If set, any scheme not explicitly mentioned will be
1402	considered insecure by &#39;go get&#39;.
1403</pre>
1404<h3 id="hdr-Import_path_syntax">Import path syntax</h3>
1405<p>
1406An import path (see &#39;go help packages&#39;) denotes a package stored in the local
1407file system.  In general, an import path denotes either a standard package (such
1408as &#34;unicode/utf8&#34;) or a package found in one of the work spaces (For more
1409details see: &#39;go help gopath&#39;).
1410</p>
1411<h3 id="hdr-Relative_import_paths">Relative import paths</h3>
1412<p>
1413An import path beginning with ./ or ../ is called a relative path.
1414The toolchain supports relative import paths as a shortcut in two ways.
1415</p>
1416<p>
1417First, a relative path can be used as a shorthand on the command line.
1418If you are working in the directory containing the code imported as
1419&#34;unicode&#34; and want to run the tests for &#34;unicode/utf8&#34;, you can type
1420&#34;go test ./utf8&#34; instead of needing to specify the full path.
1421Similarly, in the reverse situation, &#34;go test ..&#34; will test &#34;unicode&#34; from
1422the &#34;unicode/utf8&#34; directory. Relative patterns are also allowed, like
1423&#34;go test ./...&#34; to test all subdirectories. See &#39;go help packages&#39; for details
1424on the pattern syntax.
1425</p>
1426<p>
1427Second, if you are compiling a Go program not in a work space,
1428you can use a relative path in an import statement in that program
1429to refer to nearby code also not in a work space.
1430This makes it easy to experiment with small multipackage programs
1431outside of the usual work spaces, but such programs cannot be
1432installed with &#34;go install&#34; (there is no work space in which to install them),
1433so they are rebuilt from scratch each time they are built.
1434To avoid ambiguity, Go programs cannot use relative import paths
1435within a work space.
1436</p>
1437<h3 id="hdr-Remote_import_paths">Remote import paths</h3>
1438<p>
1439Certain import paths also
1440describe how to obtain the source code for the package using
1441a revision control system.
1442</p>
1443<p>
1444A few common code hosting sites have special syntax:
1445</p>
1446<pre>Bitbucket (Git, Mercurial)
1447
1448	import &#34;bitbucket.org/user/project&#34;
1449	import &#34;bitbucket.org/user/project/sub/directory&#34;
1450
1451GitHub (Git)
1452
1453	import &#34;github.com/user/project&#34;
1454	import &#34;github.com/user/project/sub/directory&#34;
1455
1456Launchpad (Bazaar)
1457
1458	import &#34;launchpad.net/project&#34;
1459	import &#34;launchpad.net/project/series&#34;
1460	import &#34;launchpad.net/project/series/sub/directory&#34;
1461
1462	import &#34;launchpad.net/~user/project/branch&#34;
1463	import &#34;launchpad.net/~user/project/branch/sub/directory&#34;
1464
1465IBM DevOps Services (Git)
1466
1467	import &#34;hub.jazz.net/git/user/project&#34;
1468	import &#34;hub.jazz.net/git/user/project/sub/directory&#34;
1469</pre>
1470<p>
1471For code hosted on other servers, import paths may either be qualified
1472with the version control type, or the go tool can dynamically fetch
1473the import path over https/http and discover where the code resides
1474from a &lt;meta&gt; tag in the HTML.
1475</p>
1476<p>
1477To declare the code location, an import path of the form
1478</p>
1479<pre>repository.vcs/path
1480</pre>
1481<p>
1482specifies the given repository, with or without the .vcs suffix,
1483using the named version control system, and then the path inside
1484that repository.  The supported version control systems are:
1485</p>
1486<pre>Bazaar      .bzr
1487Git         .git
1488Mercurial   .hg
1489Subversion  .svn
1490</pre>
1491<p>
1492For example,
1493</p>
1494<pre>import &#34;example.org/user/foo.hg&#34;
1495</pre>
1496<p>
1497denotes the root directory of the Mercurial repository at
1498example.org/user/foo or foo.hg, and
1499</p>
1500<pre>import &#34;example.org/repo.git/foo/bar&#34;
1501</pre>
1502<p>
1503denotes the foo/bar directory of the Git repository at
1504example.org/repo or repo.git.
1505</p>
1506<p>
1507When a version control system supports multiple protocols,
1508each is tried in turn when downloading.  For example, a Git
1509download tries https://, then git+ssh://.
1510</p>
1511<p>
1512By default, downloads are restricted to known secure protocols
1513(e.g. https, ssh). To override this setting for Git downloads, the
1514GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL environment variable can be set (For more details see:
1515&#39;go help environment&#39;).
1516</p>
1517<p>
1518If the import path is not a known code hosting site and also lacks a
1519version control qualifier, the go tool attempts to fetch the import
1520over https/http and looks for a &lt;meta&gt; tag in the document&#39;s HTML
1521&lt;head&gt;.
1522</p>
1523<p>
1524The meta tag has the form:
1525</p>
1526<pre>&lt;meta name=&#34;go-import&#34; content=&#34;import-prefix vcs repo-root&#34;&gt;
1527</pre>
1528<p>
1529The import-prefix is the import path corresponding to the repository
1530root. It must be a prefix or an exact match of the package being
1531fetched with &#34;go get&#34;. If it&#39;s not an exact match, another http
1532request is made at the prefix to verify the &lt;meta&gt; tags match.
1533</p>
1534<p>
1535The meta tag should appear as early in the file as possible.
1536In particular, it should appear before any raw JavaScript or CSS,
1537to avoid confusing the go command&#39;s restricted parser.
1538</p>
1539<p>
1540The vcs is one of &#34;git&#34;, &#34;hg&#34;, &#34;svn&#34;, etc,
1541</p>
1542<p>
1543The repo-root is the root of the version control system
1544containing a scheme and not containing a .vcs qualifier.
1545</p>
1546<p>
1547For example,
1548</p>
1549<pre>import &#34;example.org/pkg/foo&#34;
1550</pre>
1551<p>
1552will result in the following requests:
1553</p>
1554<pre><a href="https://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1">https://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1</a> (preferred)
1555<a href="http://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1">http://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1</a>  (fallback, only with -insecure)
1556</pre>
1557<p>
1558If that page contains the meta tag
1559</p>
1560<pre>&lt;meta name=&#34;go-import&#34; content=&#34;example.org git <a href="https://code.org/r/p/exproj">https://code.org/r/p/exproj</a>&#34;&gt;
1561</pre>
1562<p>
1563the go tool will verify that <a href="https://example.org/?go-get=1">https://example.org/?go-get=1</a> contains the
1564same meta tag and then git clone <a href="https://code.org/r/p/exproj">https://code.org/r/p/exproj</a> into
1565GOPATH/src/example.org.
1566</p>
1567<p>
1568New downloaded packages are written to the first directory listed in the GOPATH
1569environment variable (For more details see: &#39;go help gopath&#39;).
1570</p>
1571<p>
1572The go command attempts to download the version of the
1573package appropriate for the Go release being used.
1574Run &#39;go help get&#39; for more.
1575</p>
1576<h3 id="hdr-Import_path_checking">Import path checking</h3>
1577<p>
1578When the custom import path feature described above redirects to a
1579known code hosting site, each of the resulting packages has two possible
1580import paths, using the custom domain or the known hosting site.
1581</p>
1582<p>
1583A package statement is said to have an &#34;import comment&#34; if it is immediately
1584followed (before the next newline) by a comment of one of these two forms:
1585</p>
1586<pre>package math // import &#34;path&#34;
1587package math /* import &#34;path&#34; */
1588</pre>
1589<p>
1590The go command will refuse to install a package with an import comment
1591unless it is being referred to by that import path. In this way, import comments
1592let package authors make sure the custom import path is used and not a
1593direct path to the underlying code hosting site.
1594</p>
1595<p>
1596Import path checking is disabled for code found within vendor trees.
1597This makes it possible to copy code into alternate locations in vendor trees
1598without needing to update import comments.
1599</p>
1600<p>
1601See <a href="https://golang.org/s/go14customimport">https://golang.org/s/go14customimport</a> for details.
1602</p>
1603<h3 id="hdr-Description_of_package_lists">Description of package lists</h3>
1604<p>
1605Many commands apply to a set of packages:
1606</p>
1607<pre>go action [packages]
1608</pre>
1609<p>
1610Usually, [packages] is a list of import paths.
1611</p>
1612<p>
1613An import path that is a rooted path or that begins with
1614a . or .. element is interpreted as a file system path and
1615denotes the package in that directory.
1616</p>
1617<p>
1618Otherwise, the import path P denotes the package found in
1619the directory DIR/src/P for some DIR listed in the GOPATH
1620environment variable (For more details see: &#39;go help gopath&#39;).
1621</p>
1622<p>
1623If no import paths are given, the action applies to the
1624package in the current directory.
1625</p>
1626<p>
1627There are four reserved names for paths that should not be used
1628for packages to be built with the go tool:
1629</p>
1630<p>
1631- &#34;main&#34; denotes the top-level package in a stand-alone executable.
1632</p>
1633<p>
1634- &#34;all&#34; expands to all package directories found in all the GOPATH
1635trees. For example, &#39;go list all&#39; lists all the packages on the local
1636system.
1637</p>
1638<p>
1639- &#34;std&#34; is like all but expands to just the packages in the standard
1640Go library.
1641</p>
1642<p>
1643- &#34;cmd&#34; expands to the Go repository&#39;s commands and their
1644internal libraries.
1645</p>
1646<p>
1647Import paths beginning with &#34;cmd/&#34; only match source code in
1648the Go repository.
1649</p>
1650<p>
1651An import path is a pattern if it includes one or more &#34;...&#34; wildcards,
1652each of which can match any string, including the empty string and
1653strings containing slashes.  Such a pattern expands to all package
1654directories found in the GOPATH trees with names matching the
1655patterns.  As a special case, x/... matches x as well as x&#39;s subdirectories.
1656For example, net/... expands to net and packages in its subdirectories.
1657</p>
1658<p>
1659An import path can also name a package to be downloaded from
1660a remote repository.  Run &#39;go help importpath&#39; for details.
1661</p>
1662<p>
1663Every package in a program must have a unique import path.
1664By convention, this is arranged by starting each path with a
1665unique prefix that belongs to you.  For example, paths used
1666internally at Google all begin with &#39;google&#39;, and paths
1667denoting remote repositories begin with the path to the code,
1668such as &#39;github.com/user/repo&#39;.
1669</p>
1670<p>
1671Packages in a program need not have unique package names,
1672but there are two reserved package names with special meaning.
1673The name main indicates a command, not a library.
1674Commands are built into binaries and cannot be imported.
1675The name documentation indicates documentation for
1676a non-Go program in the directory. Files in package documentation
1677are ignored by the go command.
1678</p>
1679<p>
1680As a special case, if the package list is a list of .go files from a
1681single directory, the command is applied to a single synthesized
1682package made up of exactly those files, ignoring any build constraints
1683in those files and ignoring any other files in the directory.
1684</p>
1685<p>
1686Directory and file names that begin with &#34;.&#34; or &#34;_&#34; are ignored
1687by the go tool, as are directories named &#34;testdata&#34;.
1688</p>
1689<h3 id="hdr-Description_of_testing_flags">Description of testing flags</h3>
1690<p>
1691The &#39;go test&#39; command takes both flags that apply to &#39;go test&#39; itself
1692and flags that apply to the resulting test binary.
1693</p>
1694<p>
1695Several of the flags control profiling and write an execution profile
1696suitable for &#34;go tool pprof&#34;; run &#34;go tool pprof -h&#34; for more
1697information.  The --alloc_space, --alloc_objects, and --show_bytes
1698options of pprof control how the information is presented.
1699</p>
1700<p>
1701The following flags are recognized by the &#39;go test&#39; command and
1702control the execution of any test:
1703</p>
1704<pre>-bench regexp
1705    Run (sub)benchmarks matching a regular expression.
1706    The given regular expression is split into smaller ones by
1707    top-level &#39;/&#39;, where each must match the corresponding part of a
1708    benchmark&#39;s identifier.
1709    By default, no benchmarks run. To run all benchmarks,
1710    use &#39;-bench .&#39; or &#39;-bench=.&#39;.
1711
1712-benchtime t
1713    Run enough iterations of each benchmark to take t, specified
1714    as a time.Duration (for example, -benchtime 1h30s).
1715    The default is 1 second (1s).
1716
1717-count n
1718    Run each test and benchmark n times (default 1).
1719    If -cpu is set, run n times for each GOMAXPROCS value.
1720    Examples are always run once.
1721
1722-cover
1723    Enable coverage analysis.
1724
1725-covermode set,count,atomic
1726    Set the mode for coverage analysis for the package[s]
1727    being tested. The default is &#34;set&#34; unless -race is enabled,
1728    in which case it is &#34;atomic&#34;.
1729    The values:
1730	set: bool: does this statement run?
1731	count: int: how many times does this statement run?
1732	atomic: int: count, but correct in multithreaded tests;
1733		significantly more expensive.
1734    Sets -cover.
1735
1736-coverpkg pkg1,pkg2,pkg3
1737    Apply coverage analysis in each test to the given list of packages.
1738    The default is for each test to analyze only the package being tested.
1739    Packages are specified as import paths.
1740    Sets -cover.
1741
1742-cpu 1,2,4
1743    Specify a list of GOMAXPROCS values for which the tests or
1744    benchmarks should be executed.  The default is the current value
1745    of GOMAXPROCS.
1746
1747-parallel n
1748    Allow parallel execution of test functions that call t.Parallel.
1749    The value of this flag is the maximum number of tests to run
1750    simultaneously; by default, it is set to the value of GOMAXPROCS.
1751    Note that -parallel only applies within a single test binary.
1752    The &#39;go test&#39; command may run tests for different packages
1753    in parallel as well, according to the setting of the -p flag
1754    (see &#39;go help build&#39;).
1755
1756-run regexp
1757    Run only those tests and examples matching the regular expression.
1758    For tests the regular expression is split into smaller ones by
1759    top-level &#39;/&#39;, where each must match the corresponding part of a
1760    test&#39;s identifier.
1761
1762-short
1763    Tell long-running tests to shorten their run time.
1764    It is off by default but set during all.bash so that installing
1765    the Go tree can run a sanity check but not spend time running
1766    exhaustive tests.
1767
1768-timeout t
1769    If a test runs longer than t, panic.
1770    The default is 10 minutes (10m).
1771
1772-v
1773    Verbose output: log all tests as they are run. Also print all
1774    text from Log and Logf calls even if the test succeeds.
1775</pre>
1776<p>
1777The following flags are also recognized by &#39;go test&#39; and can be used to
1778profile the tests during execution:
1779</p>
1780<pre>-benchmem
1781    Print memory allocation statistics for benchmarks.
1782
1783-blockprofile block.out
1784    Write a goroutine blocking profile to the specified file
1785    when all tests are complete.
1786    Writes test binary as -c would.
1787
1788-blockprofilerate n
1789    Control the detail provided in goroutine blocking profiles by
1790    calling runtime.SetBlockProfileRate with n.
1791    See &#39;go doc runtime.SetBlockProfileRate&#39;.
1792    The profiler aims to sample, on average, one blocking event every
1793    n nanoseconds the program spends blocked.  By default,
1794    if -test.blockprofile is set without this flag, all blocking events
1795    are recorded, equivalent to -test.blockprofilerate=1.
1796
1797-coverprofile cover.out
1798    Write a coverage profile to the file after all tests have passed.
1799    Sets -cover.
1800
1801-cpuprofile cpu.out
1802    Write a CPU profile to the specified file before exiting.
1803    Writes test binary as -c would.
1804
1805-memprofile mem.out
1806    Write a memory profile to the file after all tests have passed.
1807    Writes test binary as -c would.
1808
1809-memprofilerate n
1810    Enable more precise (and expensive) memory profiles by setting
1811    runtime.MemProfileRate.  See &#39;go doc runtime.MemProfileRate&#39;.
1812    To profile all memory allocations, use -test.memprofilerate=1
1813    and pass --alloc_space flag to the pprof tool.
1814
1815-mutexprofile mutex.out
1816    Write a mutex contention profile to the specified file
1817    when all tests are complete.
1818    Writes test binary as -c would.
1819
1820-mutexprofilefraction n
1821    Sample 1 in n stack traces of goroutines holding a
1822    contended mutex.
1823
1824-outputdir directory
1825    Place output files from profiling in the specified directory,
1826    by default the directory in which &#34;go test&#34; is running.
1827
1828-trace trace.out
1829    Write an execution trace to the specified file before exiting.
1830</pre>
1831<p>
1832Each of these flags is also recognized with an optional &#39;test.&#39; prefix,
1833as in -test.v. When invoking the generated test binary (the result of
1834&#39;go test -c&#39;) directly, however, the prefix is mandatory.
1835</p>
1836<p>
1837The &#39;go test&#39; command rewrites or removes recognized flags,
1838as appropriate, both before and after the optional package list,
1839before invoking the test binary.
1840</p>
1841<p>
1842For instance, the command
1843</p>
1844<pre>go test -v -myflag testdata -cpuprofile=prof.out -x
1845</pre>
1846<p>
1847will compile the test binary and then run it as
1848</p>
1849<pre>pkg.test -test.v -myflag testdata -test.cpuprofile=prof.out
1850</pre>
1851<p>
1852(The -x flag is removed because it applies only to the go command&#39;s
1853execution, not to the test itself.)
1854</p>
1855<p>
1856The test flags that generate profiles (other than for coverage) also
1857leave the test binary in pkg.test for use when analyzing the profiles.
1858</p>
1859<p>
1860When &#39;go test&#39; runs a test binary, it does so from within the
1861corresponding package&#39;s source code directory. Depending on the test,
1862it may be necessary to do the same when invoking a generated test
1863binary directly.
1864</p>
1865<p>
1866The command-line package list, if present, must appear before any
1867flag not known to the go test command. Continuing the example above,
1868the package list would have to appear before -myflag, but could appear
1869on either side of -v.
1870</p>
1871<p>
1872To keep an argument for a test binary from being interpreted as a
1873known flag or a package name, use -args (see &#39;go help test&#39;) which
1874passes the remainder of the command line through to the test binary
1875uninterpreted and unaltered.
1876</p>
1877<p>
1878For instance, the command
1879</p>
1880<pre>go test -v -args -x -v
1881</pre>
1882<p>
1883will compile the test binary and then run it as
1884</p>
1885<pre>pkg.test -test.v -x -v
1886</pre>
1887<p>
1888Similarly,
1889</p>
1890<pre>go test -args math
1891</pre>
1892<p>
1893will compile the test binary and then run it as
1894</p>
1895<pre>pkg.test math
1896</pre>
1897<p>
1898In the first example, the -x and the second -v are passed through to the
1899test binary unchanged and with no effect on the go command itself.
1900In the second example, the argument math is passed through to the test
1901binary, instead of being interpreted as the package list.
1902</p>
1903<h3 id="hdr-Description_of_testing_functions">Description of testing functions</h3>
1904<p>
1905The &#39;go test&#39; command expects to find test, benchmark, and example functions
1906in the &#34;*_test.go&#34; files corresponding to the package under test.
1907</p>
1908<p>
1909A test function is one named TestXXX (where XXX is any alphanumeric string
1910not starting with a lower case letter) and should have the signature,
1911</p>
1912<pre>func TestXXX(t *testing.T) { ... }
1913</pre>
1914<p>
1915A benchmark function is one named BenchmarkXXX and should have the signature,
1916</p>
1917<pre>func BenchmarkXXX(b *testing.B) { ... }
1918</pre>
1919<p>
1920An example function is similar to a test function but, instead of using
1921*testing.T to report success or failure, prints output to os.Stdout.
1922If the last comment in the function starts with &#34;Output:&#34; then the output
1923is compared exactly against the comment (see examples below). If the last
1924comment begins with &#34;Unordered output:&#34; then the output is compared to the
1925comment, however the order of the lines is ignored. An example with no such
1926comment is compiled but not executed. An example with no text after
1927&#34;Output:&#34; is compiled, executed, and expected to produce no output.
1928</p>
1929<p>
1930Godoc displays the body of ExampleXXX to demonstrate the use
1931of the function, constant, or variable XXX.  An example of a method M with
1932receiver type T or *T is named ExampleT_M.  There may be multiple examples
1933for a given function, constant, or variable, distinguished by a trailing _xxx,
1934where xxx is a suffix not beginning with an upper case letter.
1935</p>
1936<p>
1937Here is an example of an example:
1938</p>
1939<pre>func ExamplePrintln() {
1940	Println(&#34;The output of\nthis example.&#34;)
1941	// Output: The output of
1942	// this example.
1943}
1944</pre>
1945<p>
1946Here is another example where the ordering of the output is ignored:
1947</p>
1948<pre>func ExamplePerm() {
1949	for _, value := range Perm(4) {
1950		fmt.Println(value)
1951	}
1952
1953	// Unordered output: 4
1954	// 2
1955	// 1
1956	// 3
1957	// 0
1958}
1959</pre>
1960<p>
1961The entire test file is presented as the example when it contains a single
1962example function, at least one other function, type, variable, or constant
1963declaration, and no test or benchmark functions.
1964</p>
1965<p>
1966See the documentation of the testing package for more information.
1967</p>
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