bzr-update-copyright

[Gordon Tyler]

On 07/01/2010 3:31 PM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> I just hacked together a new plugin, which I thought people might be
> interested in. It is currently available from:
>   bzr branch lp:~jameinel/+junk/bzr-update-copyright update_copyright
> 
> The basic idea is that it will look in the bzr data to determine when
> the file was modified and then update a Copyright line.

Neat! I never thought of using VCS history to update that.

> Running this over bzr.dev shows 609 files updated. I'm not 100% sure if
> we want to use this or not. But I was getting annoyed manually update
> the lines when I came across them, when I know that we already have that
> data available.

How about an option to make it only operate on files which are currently
modified or added in the working tree?

Ciao,
Gordon