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cmd/go: inconsistency between 'go help test' and 'go test -h' #9209

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hyangah opened this issue Dec 5, 2014 · 3 comments
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cmd/go: inconsistency between 'go help test' and 'go test -h' #9209

hyangah opened this issue Dec 5, 2014 · 3 comments
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hyangah commented Dec 5, 2014 

'go help test' and 'go test -h' present different docs. 
Other go commands don't seem to exhibit such difference.
Is it intentional? If so, we need to make them mention each other. 

The output of 'go test -h' is what 'go help testflag' outputs btw.
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minux commented Dec 5, 2014

Comment 1:

I think it's working as intended.
go help test is an higher level overview of the testing mechanism, and go test -h is
actually `go help testflag`
which gives you an overview of the flags that could be passed.
And note that "go help test" also mentions "go help testflag", but not "go test -h" (we
probably can add the
2nd shortcut)

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@mikioh mikioh changed the title cmd/go/test: inconsistency between 'go help test' and 'go test -h' cmd/go: inconsistency between 'go help test' and 'go test -h' Jan 4, 2015
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rsc commented Apr 10, 2015

I think the fix for #6576 in CL 14502065 was a mistake. The output for go test -h before that CL was incomplete in one way before the CL and now it is incomplete in a different way.

Probably the right thing to do for go test -h is to print both the help for test and for testflag.

@rsc rsc added this to the Go1.5 milestone Apr 10, 2015
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CL https://golang.org/cl/12173 mentions this issue.

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