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-This repository holds machine architecture information used by the Go toolchain.
-The parts needed in the main Go repository are copied in.
-
-This repository requires Go 1.6, or Go 1.5 with the vendor experiment enabled:
-
-	export GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1
-
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+# arch
+
+This repository holds machine architecture information used by the Go toolchain.
+The parts needed in the main Go repository are copied in.
+
+This repository requires Go 1.5+ with the vendor experiment enabled.