internal/imports: cache things outside the mod cache

Since a user's module cache is generally going to be much bigger than
their main module, one would expect that caching just information about
the module cache would be sufficient. It turns out that's not correct.
When we discover something in the module cache, we have to make sure
that a different version of it isn't already in scope. Doing that can
require information about the main module or replace targets, so that
needs to be cached too.

Concretely, when I'm working in x/tools, if a scan discovers a version
of x/tools in the module cache, it should usually ignore that version.
But that might not be true in more complicated cases, especially those
involving nested modules whose boundaries change.

So, cache everything except GOROOT. Since the new data is mutable,
we store it separately from the module cache data so that it can be
discarded easily between runs.

Change-Id: I47364f6c0270fee03af8898fec6c85d1b9c8d780
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/tools/+/202045
Reviewed-by: Rebecca Stambler <rstambler@golang.org>
7 files changed
tree: a5192ebe7bc2ca515a2768eb9e001db94ee60a73
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  3. cmd/
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  6. go/
  7. godoc/
  8. gopls/
  9. imports/
  10. internal/
  11. playground/
  12. present/
  13. refactor/
  14. .gitattributes
  15. .gitignore
  16. AUTHORS
  17. codereview.cfg
  18. CONTRIBUTING.md
  19. CONTRIBUTORS
  20. go.mod
  21. go.sum
  22. LICENSE
  23. PATENTS
  24. README.md
README.md

Go Tools

This subrepository holds the source for various packages and tools that support the Go programming language.

Some of the tools, godoc and vet for example, are included in binary Go distributions.

Others, including the Go guru and the test coverage tool, can be fetched with go get.

Packages include a type-checker for Go and an implementation of the Static Single Assignment form (SSA) representation for Go programs.

Download/Install

The easiest way to install is to run go get -u golang.org/x/tools/.... You can also manually git clone the repository to $GOPATH/src/golang.org/x/tools.

Report Issues / Send Patches

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