In an effort to help others avoid the issues I've hit due to lack of
symlink support under GOPATH, I've added a note of warning to the
Workspaces section.
I have not changed the contents of go help gopath, because on reflection
it seems this change alone may be sufficient.
Fixes#21320
Change-Id: Ib8969bf12cecad878e89ff66b5864bbf3caaf219
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/61930
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
After CL 113016 the "a" article is no longer necessary.
Change-Id: I5a80a210bd2b9eedd73d5f9f3f338d7f22c29ea6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/113355
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Mostly just formatting and minor cleanup:
- regularize HTML (add </p> etc.)
- remove all errors caught by tidy
- start all sentences on new line for easy editing
Some wording changes, but there will be more to come.
It seemed there were already enough edits to send it out.
Update #24487
Change-Id: I613ce206b1e8e3e522ecb0bbcd2acb11c4ff5bae
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/113015
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The phrase "couple X" is considered colloquial, so make that "a couple of X".
Also move the start of a sentence to a new line in a couple of places
for easier editing, in one place thereby removing two spaces after a period.
Change-Id: If5ef05eb496afc235f8f0134c4e7346375a65181
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/112176
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The videos on the front page are always the same width, regardless of
the viewport width. These changes let the video fill the space given
to its container regardless of layout. It uses the standard hack for
making iframes responsive, but the videos are loaded at random and do
not have uniform aspect ratios so that information is injected into the
DOM using custom properties. If these are not supported, it falls back
to the same layout present before this change.
Note: this change also requires CL 108678 to complete the fix,
though either CL without the other is harmless.
Updates #24997.
Change-Id: I2f93dc21ffe01d99ce0e175e9dd0e3d486fddc9f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/108677
Run-TryBot: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
In the binary sizes FAQ, the approximate size of a Go hello world
binary was said to be 1.5MB (it was about 1.6MB on go1.7 on
linux/amd64). Sadly, this is no longer true. A Go1.10 hello world is
2.0MB, and in 1.11 it'll be about 2.5MB.
Just say "a couple megabytes" to stop this dance.
Change-Id: Ib4dc13a47ccd51327c1a9d90d4116f79597513a4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/110069
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
mips64 softfloat support is based on mips implementation and introduces
new enviroment variable GOMIPS64.
GOMIPS64 is a GOARCH=mips64{,le} specific option, for a choice between
hard-float and soft-float. Valid values are 'hardfloat' (default) and
'softfloat'. It is passed to the assembler as
'GOMIPS64_{hardfloat,softfloat}'.
Change-Id: I7f73078627f7cb37c588a38fb5c997fe09c56134
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/108475
Reviewed-by: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
Run-TryBot: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
The example in the 'A web server' section of the effective Go document
uses Google's image charts API (at chart.apis.google.com).
The service is now deprecated (see developers.google.com/chart/image),
and visiting http://chart.apis.google.com gives a 404. The endpoint is
still active, so the Go code in the example still works, but there's
no point in making the link clickable by the user if the page returns
a 404.
Change the element to `<code>`.
Change-Id: Ie67f4723cfa636e3dc1460507055b6bbb2b0970c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/109576
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The existing text makes it seem like there's no way
to use GitHub over HTTPS. There is. Explain that.
Also, the existing text suggests explicit checkout into $GOPATH,
which is not going to work in the new module world.
Drop that alternative.
Also, the existing text uses pushInsteadOf instead of insteadOf,
which would have the effect of being able to push to a private
repo but not clone it in the first place. That seems not helpful,
so suggest insteadOf instead.
Fixes#18927.
Change-Id: Ic358b66f88064b53067d174a2a1591ac8bf96c88
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/107775
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The language spec requires the RHS operand of shift expressions to be unsigned integers.
The changes in CL 60230 and the related CL 81277 refer to a variable s of type uint.
The "untyped constant" here refers to 1.0, not s.
Change-Id: Id2b884816af7f79f453afcb8c34ade2d34e18bc2
GitHub-Last-Rev: b26c853cae
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#24989
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/108676
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
The patch rewrites the content of doc.go file. The file describes some
general rules of the mapping between Go assembly syntax and GNU syntax.
And it gives some Go assembly examples and corresponding GNU assembly
examples.
The patch changes the doc.go to use standard doc comment format so that
the link https://golang.org/cmd/internal/obj/arm64/ can display it.
Assembly document framework is mainly contributed by Eric Fang <Eric.Fang@arm.com>
Documentation work is contributed by Eric Fang and Fannie Zhang <Fannie.Zhang@arm.com>
Change-Id: I8b3f6d6c6b91afdc2c44602e8f796beea905085e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/102055
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
The previous CL, 107197, overclarified the need for short subject
lines. Tweak the wording to be a guideline (keep it short) rather
than a limit (76 characters), which is more the Go way.
Also be strict about avoiding markup language.
Change-Id: I0da1132db8d86052647d96f1caac60289f2209ce
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/107378
Reviewed-by: Mohit Bajoria <mohitbajo36@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
As suggested by Ian on the issue, just use past releases to avoid any
confusion regarding current and future releases.
Fixes#23891
Change-Id: Ie513cd3e15aa04822898be57f71976e6fe6bd816
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/107078
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
Fixes#24852
Change-Id: I71d0d7f75108bf4ad606733a45bb71baa66a4e91
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/107197
Reviewed-by: Alberto Donizetti <alb.donizetti@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Giovanni Bajo <rasky@develer.com>
Point out that one can just run the commands now; it's not necessary
to log out first.
Change-Id: I48d0cc0273d97ba54ce59b3a3bbcae0b5af9aaef
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/106195
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
If one is somewhat new to the command line or shell, it might be
surprising that changes applied to a file like $HOME/.profile will
seemingly not take effect, even if new shells are started.
Add a note about how shells usually only load these when the user logs
into a machine, to minimize the amount of people stuck and confused by
this.
Fixes#24756.
Change-Id: Ic68d8c97933f3f080b151a107633ecad76a163a4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/105557
Reviewed-by: Agniva De Sarker <agniva.quicksilver@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com>
I've reorganized the guide and rewritten large sections.
The structure is now more clear and logical, and can
be understood and navigated using the summary displayed at
the top of the page (before, the summary was confusing because
the guide contained H1s that were being ignored by the summary).
Both the initial onboarding process and the Gerrit
change submission process have been reworked to
include a concise checklist of steps that can be
read and understood in a few seconds, for people
that don't want or need to bother with details.
More in-depth descriptions have been moved into
separate sections, one per each checklist step.
This is by far the biggest improvement, as the previous
approach of having to read several pages just to understand
the requires steps was very scaring for beginners, in
addition of being harder to navigate.
GitHub pull requests have been integrated as a different
way to submit a change, suggested for first time contributors.
The review process has been described in more details,
documenting the workflow and the used conventions.
Most miscellanea have been moved into an "advanced
topics" chapter.
Paragraphs describing how to use git have been removed
to simplify reading. This guide should focus on Go contribution,
and not help users getting familiar with git, for which many
guides are available.
Change-Id: I6f4b76583c9878b230ba1d0225745a1708fad2e8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/93495
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
This reverts commit 4b06d9d727.
Reason for revert: It's a reference to a legendary article
from the Journal of Irreproducible Results.
Updates golang/go#24451
Change-Id: I0288177f4e286bd6ace5774f2e5e0acb02370305
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/101495
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
There are a few places where the integer value is used.
Use the equivalent constants to aid with readability.
Change-Id: I023b1dbe605340544c056d0e0d9d6d5a7d7d0edc
GitHub-Last-Rev: c1c90bcd25
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#24123
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/96984
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
The fourth example for map indexing states you have a map of type [K]V
and attempts to read in a variable of type T. Further, the example
is meant to showcase the boolean return variable saying whether the
map contained a key, but overrides to type T. This will not compile.
Changed last updated date to February 18
Fixes: #23895
Change-Id: I63c52adbcd989afd4855e329e6c727f4c01f7881
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/94906
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
This moves the paragraph mentioning the use of _ higher up
to emphasize the warning and thereby reducing chances of getting
stuck.
Fixes#22617
Change-Id: I64352a3e966a22d86fc9d381332bade49d74714a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/87375
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>