On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Sami Kerola <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 March 2014 17:33, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: >> I hit this when I ran "make update-copyright" earlier today. >> I worked around it by copying the file manually from gnulib. >> With this, it will just work: > > Hi Jim, > > When I did last update to copyrights > > 696b4640325873bfd3094af3d6f52257a85abd92 > > it was based on what changed that year. That way of working is no > where near scalable, and hence works as bad example for other > projects, so I am in favor adding update-copyright from gnulib and be > simplistic about these updates.
Hi Sami, Good. My preferred approach is to run "make update-copyright" once per year, typically in the first days of January. Otherwise, those of us with copyright-updating save hooks in our editor are tempted to update them during the year, piecemeal, as we change selected files. Doing it all at once eliminates that small, recurring annoyance.
