From 70169d2489719dd670a42756090b44f0d40aeb77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: stephen mcquay Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 07:03:09 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] added simple readme --- readme.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 readme.md diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1d94f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/readme.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# gorigin + +Have you ever peered into `$GOPATH/bin` only to wonder where all that stuff came from? + +As someone who originally came from scripting languages where one could trivially peer into an 'executable' using an editor, the origin of binaries in that folder (specifically if `GOPATH=~`) was completely opaque to me. Not any more! + +`gorigin` helps shed light on this by creating a list of binaries in all the `bin` folders in the `GOPATH` and marching through all the `src` folders in the `GOPATH` and reporting when a go package with a package name of `main` matches.