Go: cmd/go: get --verbose

[techtonik]

It is unclear what go is doing while trying to get LXD for development with go get github.com/lxc/lxd. It hangs for a lot of time and I don't know if it is network problem or just long checkout:

$ go version
go version go1.4.2 linux/amd64

What I expect at first is some command line help:

$ go get github.com/lxc/lxd -h
package -h: unrecognized import path "-h"
$ go get github.com/lxc/lxd --help
package --help: unrecognized import path "--help"

And then:

$ go get github.com/lxc/lxd --verbose
downloading ....
compiling ...
etc ...

[dominikh]

Flags go before arguments.

dominikh-pc ~ $ go get -h github.com/lxc/lxd
usage: get [-d] [-f] [-fix] [-t] [-u] [build flags] [packages]
[...]

(and of course, with -h it makes no sense to specify a package path).

Verbose also exists: -v

[techtonik]

@dominikh it is a convenience feature. Editing a line to insert --help before package name when you need to lookup something you've forgot is a nuisance after Python where optparse handles this gracefully.

Well, cool that -v exists, but you see that I was unable to use it, because well I used to add options at the end.

[epitron]

$ go get --help
usage: get [-d] [-f] [-fix] [-insecure] [-t] [-u] [build flags] [packages]

Shouldn't it list -v there?

[bradfitz]

This bug is closed. We don't re-use old bugs.