---  go help
usage: go command [arguments]

go manages Go source code.

The commands are:

    build       compile and install packages and dependencies
    clean       remove intermediate objects
    fix         run gofix on packages
    fmt         run gofmt -w on packages
    get         download and install packages and dependencies
    install     install packages and dependencies
    list        list packages
    test        test packages
    version     print Go version
    vet         run govet on packages

Use "go help [command]" for more information about a command.

Additional help topics:

    gopath      GOPATH environment variable
    importpath  description of import paths
    remote      remote import path syntax

Use "go help [topic]" for more information about that topic.

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---  go help build
usage: go build [-n] [-v] [importpath...]

Build compiles the packages named by the import paths,
along with their dependencies, but it does not install the results.

The -n flag prints the commands but does not run them.
The -v flag prints the commands.

For more about import paths, see 'go help importpath'.

See also: go install, go get, go clean.
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---  go help clean
usage: go clean [-nuke] [importpath...]

Clean removes intermediate object files generated during
the compilation of the packages named by the import paths,
but by default it does not remove the installed package binaries.

The -nuke flag causes clean to remove the installed package binaries too.

TODO: Clean does not clean dependencies of the packages.

For more about import paths, see 'go help importpath'.
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---  go help install
usage: go install [-n] [-v] [importpath...]

Install compiles and installs the packages named by the import paths,
along with their dependencies.

The -n flag prints the commands but does not run them.
The -v flag prints the commands.

For more about import paths, see 'go help importpath'.

See also: go build, go get, go clean.
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---  go help fix
usage: go fix [importpath...]

Fix runs the gofix command on the packages named by the import paths.

For more about gofix, see 'godoc gofix'.
For more about import paths, see 'go help importpath'.

To run gofix with specific options, run gofix itself.

See also: go fmt, go vet.
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---  go help fmt
usage: go fmt [importpath...]

Fmt runs the command 'gofmt -w' on the packages named by the import paths.

For more about gofmt, see 'godoc gofmt'.
For more about import paths, see 'go help importpath'.

To run gofmt with specific options, run gofmt itself.

See also: go fix, go vet.
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---  go help get
usage: go get [importpath...]

Get downloads and installs the packages named by the import paths,
along with their dependencies.

After downloading the code, 'go get' looks for a tag beginning
with "go." that corresponds to the local Go version.
For Go "release.r58" it looks for a tag named "go.r58".
For "weekly.2011-06-03" it looks for "go.weekly.2011-06-03".
If the specific "go.X" tag is not found, it uses the latest earlier
version it can find.  Otherwise, it uses the default version for
the version control system: HEAD for git, tip for Mercurial,
and so on.

TODO: Explain versions better.

For more about import paths, see 'go help importpath'.

For more about how 'go get' finds source code to
download, see 'go help remote'.

See also: go build, go install, go clean.
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---  go help list
usage: go list [-f format] [-json] [importpath...]

List lists the packages named by the import paths.

The default output shows the package name and file system location:

    books /home/you/src/google-api-go-client.googlecode.com/hg/books/v1
    oauth /home/you/src/goauth2.googlecode.com/hg/oauth
    sqlite /home/you/src/gosqlite.googlecode.com/hg/sqlite

The -f flag specifies an alternate format for the list,
using the syntax of package template.  The default output
is equivalent to -f '{{.Name}} {{.Dir}}'  The struct
being passed to the template is:

    type Package struct {
        Name string         // package name
        Doc string          // package documentation string
        GoFiles []string    // names of Go source files in package
        ImportPath string   // import path denoting package
        Imports []string    // import paths used by this package
        Deps []string       // all (recursively) imported dependencies
        Dir string          // directory containing package sources
        Version string      // version of installed package
    }

The -json flag causes the package data to be printed in JSON format.

For more about import paths, see 'go help importpath'.
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---  go help test
usage: go test [importpath...]

Test runs gotest to test the packages named by the import paths.
It prints a summary of the test results in the format:

	test archive/tar
	FAIL archive/zip
	test compress/gzip
	...

followed by gotest output for each failed package.

For more about import paths, see 'go help importpath'.

See also: go build, go compile, go vet.
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---  go help version
usage: go version

Version prints the Go version, as reported by runtime.Version.
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---  go help vet
usage: go vet [importpath...]

Vet runs the govet command on the packages named by the import paths.

For more about govet, see 'godoc govet'.
For more about import paths, see 'go help importpath'.

To run govet with specific options, run govet itself.

See also: go fmt, go fix.
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---  go help gopath
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.
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---  go help importpath
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.

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 'project.googlecode.com/'.
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---  go help remote
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 "project.googlecode.com/git"
		import "project.googlecode.com/git/sub/directory"

		import "project.googlecode.com/hg"
		import "project.googlecode.com/hg/sub/directory"

		import "project.googlecode.com/svn/trunk"
		import "project.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/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.
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