cmd/go: update out of date help text about vendoring

Change-Id: I2b61f3b3ecf28d8f6a8dff94d194b6d3d450ea22
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/17996
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>

diff --git a/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go b/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go
index a83f17ef353131620b623d8aaf78d7dc42214797..ea2eb77470e1a4ccaaed7c52933b4dc426961c3f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go
+++ b/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go
@@ -1019,9 +1019,6 @@ As of Go 1.6 they are on by default. To turn them off, set
 GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=0. In Go 1.7, the environment
 variable will stop having any effect.
 
-The vendoring semantics are an experiment, and they may change
-in future releases. Once settled, they will be on by default.
-
 See https://golang.org/s/go15vendor for details.
 
 
@@ -1089,7 +1086,7 @@ Special-purpose environment variables:
                File names in stack traces are rewritten from GOROOT to
                GOROOT_FINAL.
        GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT
-               Set to 1 to enable the Go 1.5 vendoring experiment.
+               Set to 0 to disable vendoring semantics.
        GO_EXTLINK_ENABLED
                Whether the linker should use external linking mode
                when using -linkmode=auto with code that uses cgo.
@@ -1265,10 +1262,10 @@ unless it is being referred to by that import path. In this way, import comments
 let package authors make sure the custom import path is used and not a
 direct path to the underlying code hosting site.
 
-If the vendoring experiment is enabled (see 'go help gopath'),
-then import path checking is disabled for code found within vendor trees.
-This makes it possible to copy code into alternate locations in vendor trees
-without needing to update import comments.
+If vendoring is enabled (see 'go help gopath'), then import path checking is
+disabled for code found within vendor trees. This makes it possible to copy
+code into alternate locations in vendor trees without needing to update import
+comments.
 
 See https://golang.org/s/go14customimport for details.
 

diff --git a/src/cmd/go/help.go b/src/cmd/go/help.go
index 7f81241045ed95ef10e759cb3808b59ef427a1c4..d8e7efedb3750b67e51d130a77c6a28195816546 100644 (file)
--- a/src/cmd/go/help.go
+++ b/src/cmd/go/help.go
@@ -269,10 +269,10 @@ unless it is being referred to by that import path. In this way, import comments
 let package authors make sure the custom import path is used and not a
 direct path to the underlying code hosting site.
 
-If the vendoring experiment is enabled (see 'go help gopath'),
-then import path checking is disabled for code found within vendor trees.
-This makes it possible to copy code into alternate locations in vendor trees
-without needing to update import comments.
+If vendoring is enabled (see 'go help gopath'), then import path checking is
+disabled for code found within vendor trees. This makes it possible to copy
+code into alternate locations in vendor trees without needing to update import
+comments.
 
 See https://golang.org/s/go14customimport for details.
        `,
@@ -427,9 +427,6 @@ As of Go 1.6 they are on by default. To turn them off, set
 GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=0. In Go 1.7, the environment
 variable will stop having any effect.
 
-The vendoring semantics are an experiment, and they may change
-in future releases. Once settled, they will be on by default.
-
 See https://golang.org/s/go15vendor for details.
        `,
 }
@@ -501,7 +498,7 @@ Special-purpose environment variables:
                File names in stack traces are rewritten from GOROOT to
                GOROOT_FINAL.
        GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT
-               Set to 1 to enable the Go 1.5 vendoring experiment.
+               Set to 0 to disable vendoring semantics.
        GO_EXTLINK_ENABLED
                Whether the linker should use external linking mode
                when using -linkmode=auto with code that uses cgo.