cmd/go: clarify go get documentation

Make the documentation for `go get` match the documentation for `go
install`, since `go get` essentially invokes `go install`.

Update #15825.

Change-Id: I374d80efd301814b6d98b86b7a4a68dd09704c92
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/23925
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>

diff --git a/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go b/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go
index 2a64657732067ccb2f706f84b148428828bec883..b8ca833a88e30230f1857e4df68829f2a324ad24 100644 (file)
--- a/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go
+++ b/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go
@@ -473,8 +473,8 @@ Usage:
 
        go get [-d] [-f] [-fix] [-insecure] [-t] [-u] [build flags] [packages]
 
-Get downloads and installs the packages named by the import paths,
-along with their dependencies.
+Get downloads the packages named by the import paths, along with their
+dependencies. It then installs the named packages, like 'go install'.
 
 The -d flag instructs get to stop after downloading the packages; that is,
 it instructs get not to install the packages.

diff --git a/src/cmd/go/get.go b/src/cmd/go/get.go
index b52991a5fc42551480817bc34242c32aebb4b46e..969760a77e7b1d8e2f0dc8dd144a45043914107e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/cmd/go/get.go
+++ b/src/cmd/go/get.go
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ var cmdGet = &Command{
        UsageLine: "get [-d] [-f] [-fix] [-insecure] [-t] [-u] [build flags] [packages]",
        Short:     "download and install packages and dependencies",
        Long: `
-Get downloads and installs the packages named by the import paths,
-along with their dependencies.
+Get downloads the packages named by the import paths, along with their
+dependencies. It then installs the named packages, like 'go install'.
 
 The -d flag instructs get to stop after downloading the packages; that is,
 it instructs get not to install the packages.