On Monday, October 2, 2017 at 1:26:31 PM UTC+2, Jakob Borg wrote:
>
> The documentation for the -f flags says: 
>
> > The -f flag, valid only when -u is set, forces get -u not to verify that 
> > each package has been checked out from the source control repository 
> > implied by its import path. This can be useful if the source is a local 
> fork 
> > of the original. 
>
> However, you're not getting an error indicating a mismatch between source 
> control repository and import path. You're getting an error indicating that 
> go-get doesn't understand what VCS is in use (or maybe that it doesn't 
> work, as in git or hg not being installed). The -u flag requests go-get to 
> update the package to the latest version from source control, so it can't 
> continue at that point. 
>
>

Thanks. However, "go get -t" still complains about "missing Git command". 
Indeed, on that machine I intentionally don't  use any VCS (just a source 
tarball). So I just need the Go compiler to compile and quit trying to brew 
coffee I didn't request.

-Alex

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