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cmd/go: doc: no official explanation about GOCACHE=off ? #25928

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hirochachacha opened this issue Jun 17, 2018 · 3 comments
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cmd/go: doc: no official explanation about GOCACHE=off ? #25928

hirochachacha opened this issue Jun 17, 2018 · 3 comments
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As far as I can see, I could not find the documentation about that.

@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor changed the title doc: no official explanation about GOCACHE=off ? cmd/go: doc: no official explanation about GOCACHE=off ? Jun 18, 2018
@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor added the NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. label Jun 18, 2018
@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor added this to the Go1.11 milestone Jun 18, 2018
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@ianlancetaylor - How about adding something like this

You can set the variable to "off" if you want to bypass the cache

at the end of https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/go/internal/help/helpdoc.go#L659, which is the output of go help cache.

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@agnivade Sure, maybe at the end of the first paragraph that discusses GOCACHE.

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Change https://golang.org/cl/119695 mentions this issue: cmd/go/internal: add a note about GOCACHE=off

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