bzr-update-copyright

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Gordon Tyler wrote:
> 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
> 

You can give it a list of files to work on. If the files are newly
added, then they don't have any history to work on. Otherwise you could
probably do:

bzr status | xargs bzr update-history

That would fail for files with spaces, etc, but it would approximately
do the right thing. (I also skip unknown files, so "modified:" will just
get skipped.)

John
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