There is no way in cvs (or in svn either) to get just the year substituted in so it looks like some perl....
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<p>
We need to change the copyright line which is at the top of each of our source code files, currently it reads:
<pre>
* Copyright (c) XXXX: Genome Research Ltd.
</pre>
where XXXX is a number of different dates.
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<p>
It should all be changed to read:
<pre>
* Copyright (c) 2006 - 2010 Genome Research Ltd.
</pre>
</p>
<p>
Be good to report any .c or .h files that don't have a copyright line.
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<fieldset><legend>How to do this?</legend>
<p>We can use find to pull out all the .c an .h files so that we can process then one by one.
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<p>A script can process each file by:
<ul>
<li>getting edit permission from CVS
<li>filtering the file via a perl script
<li>committing the file to CVS if successful
</ul>
</p>
<p>Perhaps it would be simplest to write a shell script to operate the CVS, but surely perl can run commands?</p>
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<fieldset><legend>Where and How?</legend>
<p>The script will live in the ZMap/scripts directory, as this is for build related functions, and be called 'CopyRight'. </p>
<p>In the interests of a quite life it is recommended that all files should be returned to CVS and ZMap should acheive a clean build before starting.</p>
