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Re: Ignore two more files for copyright.sh
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:47:58 -0500
- Subject: Re: Ignore two more files for copyright.sh
- References: <20070109213811.GE30631@nevyn.them.org> <uzm8rhm3c.fsf@gnu.org>
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:27:51AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:38:11 -0500
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> >
> > Pie on my face. I knew this would happen... I suppose I'm impressed
> > there was only one test depending on exact line numbering.
>
> Btw, it's possible to have the copyright notice at the end of the
> file, if we say at the beginning something like "Copyright notice at
> the end of the file". That way, the "operational" parts of the file
> will never change their line numbers, while your script will find the
> copyright if it's within the first 2KB of the file (and if that's not
> enough, we can enlarge this value by a one-line change to the
> gdb-copyright-update function in your script).
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind - it may come in useful. Since we
pretty much never change these files, I think it's safer to leave them
alone for now.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery