Automatic merge from submit-queue bump bazel build to go1.8.1 and remove invalid unit tests part of https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/38228 I firmly believe that unit tests that check error strings are incorrect unit tests. If we care about what type of error is returned, we need to use public error types. Anywhere we are using generic errors, we don't care other then that we saw an error.
This staging/src/k8s.io/client-go directory is the staging area of the client repo. It contains a versioned client, tools built around the client like the reflector, and all the client dependencies. The content will be periodically published to k8s.io/client-go repo.
The staged content is copied from the main repo, i.e., k8s.io/kubernetes, with directory rearrangement and necessary rewritings. To sync the content with the latest code in your local k8s.io/kubernetes, you need to run godep restore in k8s root directory, then run staging/copy.sh.
vendor/k8s.io/client-go is a symlink pointing to this staging area, so to use the packages in the staging area, you can import it as "vendor/client-go/", as if the client were vendored. The client will be vendored from k8s.io/client-go for real after the test matrix is converted to vendor k8s components.