Re: [PATCH] maint: add gnulib's update-copyright module

[Jim Meyering]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Sami Kerola <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 13 March 2014 17:33, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> 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.