Go: top-level: Go binary checked in to git repository?

[kevinburkemeter]

It looks like commit cfbd1c765a455d18187bb234b6cce0ea5a8b76a6 added a go binary at the root of the Git repository.

0s kevin in ~/src/github.com/golang/go
± (master) $ ls -al
total 14M
drwxr-xr-x  22 kevin staff  704 Aug 12 13:20 .
drwxr-xr-x   9 kevin staff  288 Feb 19 16:20 ..
drwxr-xr-x  13 kevin staff  416 Aug 12 13:23 .git
-rw-r--r--   1 kevin staff  639 Jun  8 09:13 .gitattributes
drwxr-xr-x   6 kevin staff  192 Jan  6  2020 .github
-rw-r--r--   1 kevin staff  928 Aug  5  2019 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--   1 kevin staff  55K Jul  8 11:07 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r--   1 kevin staff 1.4K Aug  5  2019 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw-r--r--   1 kevin staff  94K Aug 11 10:55 CONTRIBUTORS
-rw-r--r--   1 kevin staff 1.5K Aug  5  2019 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--   1 kevin staff 1.3K Aug  5  2019 PATENTS
-rw-r--r--   1 kevin staff 1.6K Aug  5  2019 README.md
-rw-r--r--   1 kevin staff  397 Sep 26  2019 SECURITY.md
drwxr-xr-x  21 kevin staff  672 Jul 16 20:30 api
drwxr-xr-x  46 kevin staff 1.5K Aug 12 10:37 doc
-rw-r--r--   1 kevin staff 5.6K Aug  5  2019 favicon.ico
-rwxr-xr-x   1 kevin staff  14M Aug 12 13:20 go
drwxr-xr-x   3 kevin staff   96 Aug  5  2019 lib
drwxr-xr-x  14 kevin staff  448 Oct 23  2019 misc
-rw-r--r--   1 kevin staff   26 Aug  5  2019 robots.txt
drwxr-xr-x  70 kevin staff 2.2K Jul 25 22:36 src
drwxr-xr-x 328 kevin staff  11K Jul 30 13:59 test

It's executable on Darwin, here is what prints out.

$ ./go version
go version devel +0ea11145ff Tue Jun 30 15:04:06 2020 -0400 darwin/amd64

[ianlancetaylor]

CC @matloob @andybons @dmitshur

[matloob]

Thanks for catching this.

[andybons]

Let’s rewrite history to remove it.

[andybons]

I’ll take this as I’m on call.

[andybons]

Reverting to 2bfa45cfa994512c47da2d98f3baca5bb474ec9b (the commit right before)

[andybons]

This is now done.

[andybons]

@matloob you’ll have to reland the changes that were dropped.
@cherrymui you’ll have to redo the dev.link merge.

[cherrymui]

Done. Thanks.