Updates the copyright years in source code files.
Say you have a copyright string in the top of some source file, like:
# Copyright © 2010 John Doe <[email protected]>
If you edit this file, you would like the copyright notice so reflect the current year as well, like:
# Copyright © 2010, 2012 John Doe <[email protected]>
This script checks for outdated copyright strings and updates them.
Ranges are detected and collapsed intelligently. If you have 2008, 2009,
2010, it will become 2008-2010. If you mix ranges and single years, this
will also be picked up correctly:
2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012
That list becomes:
2002-2004, 2006, 2008-2009, 2012
In order to prevent changing of copyright notices that do not carry your name,
you can create an INI style configuration file at
~/.config/copyright_updater.ini which would look like that:
[name] name = John Doe email = [email protected] [unicode] replace = true
Additionally, it can replace (c) with © automatically, if you set the
option in the config file.
There is a command line utility that you can use to update the copyright in given files.
Then there is also a Vim plugin that checks your files every time you save a file. That way, the copyright is always up to date.
On Debian based systems, you can just call make install. If you want other
options passed to ./setup.py install, then call make with a different
setupoptions=… argument, where you can specify all the options that you
want to setuptools.
Go into the python folder and install the Python modules. You can either
do it for all users:
python setup.py install
Or just for yourself:
python setup.py install --user
Then copy the contents of the vim folder (that is plugin) into your
~/.vim folder. If you use Pathogen, you should copy the files into
~/.vim/bundle/copyright_updater/plugin/.