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buchs-kevin opened this issue Jun 28, 2015 · 5 comments
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cmd/go: go get seems to require Hg on Windows, git not sufficient #11444

buchs-kevin opened this issue Jun 28, 2015 · 5 comments
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Running on Win7 with latest Go installation and I have git installed. When I try to run go get, I get an error message saying that Mercurial is not installed. The documentation to which the error message refers indicates that git is one of the available source code control options. Here is the transcript:

C:\Users\buchs\Documents\Programming\Go>go get code.google.com/p/go-imap/go1/imap
go: missing Mercurial command. See http://golang.org/s/gogetcmd
package code.google.com/p/go-imap/go1/imap: exec: "hg": executable file not found in %PATH%

C:\Users\buchs\Documents\Programming\Go>git
usage: git [--version] [--help] [-C ] [-c name=value]
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Once I installed Mercurial, the go get command succeeded.

@Thomasdezeeuw
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That is because code.google.com/p/go-imap work with Mercurial rather then Git. So you need Mercurial (Hg) to get the source code. Go can't do without Mercurial in this case.

@mikioh mikioh changed the title go get seems to require Hg on Windows, git not sufficient cmd/go: go get seems to require Hg on Windows, git not sufficient Jun 28, 2015
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This page https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoGetTools is worded to suggest that having one of the tools is sufficient. It should be reworded.

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Updated, not that I think it's necessary.

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Don't you wonder who should be the judge of necessity of clarity of documentation: an experienced user who maintains the documentation or a new user who depends upon the accuracy of the information on the documentation?

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