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Daniel Martí 4edea0f0a7 doc: mention 'go get golang.org/dl/...' in install
I needed Go 1.10 to debug and fix a test failure on that Go version in
x/tools, but I forgot what the magic 'go get' command for this was.

Googling "download specific golang version" and similar keywords showed
no results, presumably because the golang.org/dl subrepo isn't
prominently recommended nor documented anywhere.

The most appropriate documentation page to add this to is doc/install,
since it goes into some detail and is well indexed. We only need a short
section to introduce the trick.

The example does mention a specific version, Go 1.10.7, but I couldn't
imagine a way to make it version-agnostic while still being clear on
what the commands effectively do.

Change-Id: I13158564d76d95caec412cdb35a50a4356df5863
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/157457
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
2019-01-23 16:07:39 +00:00
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api api: add os.(*File).SyscallConn to go1.12.txt 2019-01-02 21:21:53 +00:00
doc doc: mention 'go get golang.org/dl/...' in install 2019-01-23 16:07:39 +00:00
lib/time lib/time: update tzdata to 2018i 2019-01-07 20:14:03 +00:00
misc cmd/cgo: don't replace newlines with semicolons in expressions 2019-01-18 03:25:40 +00:00
src cmd/compile: don't bother compiling functions named "_" 2019-01-22 22:06:11 +00:00
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AUTHORS A+C: change email address for Elias Naur 2019-01-23 15:05:26 +00:00
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