Will Zhou,

Yes. The objective is to be on the current point release. For example.

// Clone current point release: go1.9.1
$ git clone https://go.googlesource.com/go
$ cd go/src
$ git checkout release-branch.go1.9
$ ./make.bash
$ go version
go version go1.9.1 linux/amd64


// ...

// Update to current point release: go1.9.2
$ cd go/src
$ git pull
$ ./make.bash
$ go version
go version go1.9.2 linux/amd64

Peter

On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 8:55:24 AM UTC-4, Will Zhou wrote:
>
> In the page Installing Go from source 
> <https://golang.org/doc/install/source>, of the section below, branch 
> 'go1.9' should be changed to 'release-branch.go1.9'.
>
>
> Fetch the repository
>
> Go will install to a directory named go. Change to the directory that 
> will be its parent and make sure the godirectory does not exist. Then 
> clone the repository and check out the latest release tag (go1.9, for 
> example):
>
> $ git clone https://go.googlesource.com/go
> $ cd go
> $ git checkout go1.9
>
>
>
> $ git branch -a
> * (HEAD detached at go1.9)
>   master
>   remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
>   remotes/origin/dev.boringcrypto
>   remotes/origin/dev.boringcrypto.go1.8
>   remotes/origin/dev.cc
>   remotes/origin/dev.debug
>   remotes/origin/dev.garbage
>   remotes/origin/dev.gcfe
>   remotes/origin/dev.inline
>   remotes/origin/dev.power64
>   remotes/origin/dev.ssa
>   remotes/origin/dev.tls
>   remotes/origin/dev.typealias
>   remotes/origin/master
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.go1
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.go1.1
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.go1.2
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.go1.3
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.go1.4
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.go1.5
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.go1.6
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.go1.7
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.go1.8
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.go1.9
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.r57
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.r58
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.r59
>   remotes/origin/release-branch.r60
>   remotes/origin/tmp.shadams
>
>

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