Commit b5be877b authored by Alberto Donizetti's avatar Alberto Donizetti

cmd/go: clarify @none effect on dependants modules

Expand modules documentation to clarify why @none is useful. The
wording is the one suggested by rsc on the issue.

Fixes #26684

Change-Id: I76dc4ff87e50f1dd8536fd9ac1fd938adb29bee3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/161037Reviewed-by: default avatarBryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com>
parent 691a2d45
......@@ -2496,7 +2496,8 @@
// development module, then get will update the required version.
// Specifying a version earlier than the current required version is valid and
// downgrades the dependency. The version suffix @none indicates that the
// dependency should be removed entirely.
// dependency should be removed entirely, downgrading or removing modules
// depending on it as needed.
//
// Although get defaults to using the latest version of the module containing
// a named package, it does not use the latest version of that module's
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......@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ If a module under consideration is already a dependency of the current
development module, then get will update the required version.
Specifying a version earlier than the current required version is valid and
downgrades the dependency. The version suffix @none indicates that the
dependency should be removed entirely.
dependency should be removed entirely, downgrading or removing modules
depending on it as needed.
Although get defaults to using the latest version of the module containing
a named package, it does not use the latest version of that module's
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