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cmd/go: generate silently succeeds on non-existent package #61804

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adonovan opened this issue Aug 7, 2023 · 1 comment
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cmd/go: generate silently succeeds on non-existent package #61804

adonovan opened this issue Aug 7, 2023 · 1 comment

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adonovan commented Aug 7, 2023

I understand that go generate tries to be robust against many kinds of errors since it is often invoked on a project that won't build, but I don't think it should silently succeed when given the name of a nonexistent package:

$ go help generate
...
Generate processes packages in the order given on the command line, one at a time...
For more about specifying packages, see 'go help packages'.

$ go generate ./nonesuch; echo $?
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mvdan commented Aug 7, 2023

Sounds like a duplicate of #60079 :) At least I wasn't the only one being puzzled by this for a few minutes.

@mvdan mvdan closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Aug 7, 2023
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