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cmd/go/internal/modget: improve GOINSECURE docs #38572

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cmd/go/internal/modget: Improve GOINSECURE docs.
witchard Apr 21, 2020
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Re-word following review suggestions and fix autogenerated alldocs.go
witchard Apr 22, 2020
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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion src/cmd/go/alldocs.go
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions src/cmd/go/internal/help/helpdoc.go
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Expand Up @@ -510,6 +510,9 @@ General-purpose environment variables:
Comma-separated list of glob patterns (in the syntax of Go's path.Match)
of module path prefixes that should always be fetched in an insecure
manner. Only applies to dependencies that are being fetched directly.
Unlike the -insecure flag on 'go get', GOINSECURE does not disable
checksum database validation. GOPRIVATE or GONOSUMDB may be used
to achieve that.
GOOS
The operating system for which to compile code.
Examples are linux, darwin, windows, netbsd.
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion src/cmd/go/internal/modget/get.go
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Expand Up @@ -114,7 +114,10 @@ require downgrading other dependencies, and 'go get' does
this automatically as well.

The -insecure flag permits fetching from repositories and resolving
custom domains using insecure schemes such as HTTP. Use with caution.
custom domains using insecure schemes such as HTTP. Use with caution. The
GOINSECURE environment variable is usually a better alternative, since it
provides control over which modules may be retrieved using an insecure scheme.
See 'go help environment' for details.

The second step is to download (if needed), build, and install
the named packages.
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