what does ## explicit mean?

[PhilipAbed]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version 1.14

can anyone tell me what is the ## explicit for? i need to understand its effect on the modules.txt file

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

my project is breaking after trying to parse "modules.txt" file on go version 1.14 (works fine on go 1.13.5

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

windows 10

go env Output

$ go env
set GO111MODULE=
set GOARCH=amd64
set GOBIN=
set GOCACHE=C:\Users\PhilipAbed\AppData\Local\go-build
set GOENV=C:\Users\PhilipAbed\AppData\Roaming\go\env
set GOEXE=.exe
set GOFLAGS=
set GOHOSTARCH=amd64
set GOHOSTOS=windows
set GOINSECURE=
set GONOPROXY=
set GONOSUMDB=
set GOOS=windows
set GOPATH=C:\Users\PhilipAbed\go
set GOPRIVATE=
set GOPROXY=https://proxy.golang.org,direct
set GOROOT=c:\go
set GOSUMDB=sum.golang.org
set GOTMPDIR=
set GOTOOLDIR=c:\go\pkg\tool\windows_amd64
set GCCGO=gccgo
set AR=ar
set CC=gcc
set CXX=g++
set CGO_ENABLED=1
set GOMOD=
set CGO_CFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_CPPFLAGS=
set CGO_CXXFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_FFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_LDFLAGS=-g -O2
set PKG_CONFIG=pkg-config
set GOGCCFLAGS=-m64 -mthreads -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=C:\Users\PHILIP~1\AppData\Local\Temp\go-build988577882=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches

What did you do?

What did you expect to see?

a working parsing of the modules.txt

What did you see instead?

modules.txt broke since there's an extra "## explicit"

[bcmills]

The vendor/modules.txt file format is not intended for other tools to consume.
(go list is the supported API for external tools to query dependency information: see https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-List_packages_or_modules.)

The ## explicit entries were added for #33848.