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Diffstat (limited to 'src/embed/embed.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/embed/embed.go | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/embed/embed.go b/src/embed/embed.go index b22975cc3a..29e0adf1a6 100644 --- a/src/embed/embed.go +++ b/src/embed/embed.go @@ -59,12 +59,15 @@ // as Go double-quoted or back-quoted string literals. // // If a pattern names a directory, all files in the subtree rooted at that directory are -// embedded (recursively), so the variable in the above example is equivalent to: +// embedded (recursively), except that files with names beginning with ‘.’ or ‘_’ +// are excluded. So the variable in the above example is almost equivalent to: // // // content is our static web server content. // //go:embed image template html/index.html // var content embed.FS // +// The difference is that ‘image/*’ embeds ‘image/.tempfile’ while ‘image’ does not. +// // The //go:embed directive can be used with both exported and unexported variables, // depending on whether the package wants to make the data available to other packages. // Similarly, it can be used with both global and function-local variables, |