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Re: update-copyright
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Eric Blake |
Subject: |
Re: update-copyright |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:41:42 -0600 |
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On 04/29/2011 08:32 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Two small niggles:
>
> 1. No option to turn off updating to the current year. I do take care
> not to add years in which I don't change files (I know that this is
> fussy), and I was just using update-copyright to compress year ranges.
Using UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR didn't work for you? Oh, that changes which
year is added, but still insists on adding a year. You have a point
that it might be nice to have a mode that reformats all existing years
without adding any new year.
>
> 2. No way to exclude files that are under VC but not from the project.
> In my case, some autoconf-archive .m4 files.
Yes, there is. With maint.mk, you run 'make update-copyright', and it
will honor $VC_LIST_EXCEPT (which uses either the file
.x-update-copyright or the macro
exclude_file_name_regexp--update-copyright in cfg.mk) as a way of
exempting particular files.
--
Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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