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cmd/go: get --verbose #12197

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techtonik opened this issue Aug 19, 2015 · 4 comments
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cmd/go: get --verbose #12197

techtonik opened this issue Aug 19, 2015 · 4 comments
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@techtonik
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It is unclear what go is doing while trying to get LXD for development with go get github.com/lxc/lxd. It hangs for a lot of time and I don't know if it is network problem or just long checkout:

$ go version
go version go1.4.2 linux/amd64

What I expect at first is some command line help:

$ go get github.com/lxc/lxd -h
package -h: unrecognized import path "-h"
$ go get github.com/lxc/lxd --help
package --help: unrecognized import path "--help"

And then:

$ go get github.com/lxc/lxd --verbose
downloading ....
compiling ...
etc ...
@dominikh
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Flags go before arguments.

dominikh-pc ~ $ go get -h github.com/lxc/lxd
usage: get [-d] [-f] [-fix] [-t] [-u] [build flags] [packages]
[...]

(and of course, with -h it makes no sense to specify a package path).

Verbose also exists: -v

@techtonik
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@dominikh it is a convenience feature. Editing a line to insert --help before package name when you need to lookup something you've forgot is a nuisance after Python where optparse handles this gracefully.

Well, cool that -v exists, but you see that I was unable to use it, because well I used to add options at the end.

@mikioh mikioh changed the title go get --verbose cmd/go: get --verbose Aug 21, 2015
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epitron commented Mar 13, 2016 

$ go get --help
usage: get [-d] [-f] [-fix] [-insecure] [-t] [-u] [build flags] [packages]

Shouldn't it list -v there?

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This bug is closed. We don't re-use old bugs.

@JesseWeinstein JesseWeinstein mentioned this issue Aug 16, 2016
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