go command

Authoritative documentation for the go command, including generate, workspace maintenance, package visibility rules, testing conventions, and vendoring commands.

• Author: Go Team
• Authority: primary
• Kind: package-doc
• URL: https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/go

What it covers

• go command subcommands and conventions
• internal and vendor directory visibility rules
• generate, workspace, and testdata behavior

Why authoritative

Canonical command documentation published with the Go toolchain.

Use when

• what does the go command do here
• how do internal packages work in Go
• how should go generate or vendoring be used

Keywords

• go command, go generate, go work, internal packages, vendor, testdata

Used by

• internal-packages
• go-workspaces
• vendoring
• go-generate
• golden-files-and-testdata