From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Copyright years update in etags test suite
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:28:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AD00C8.90603@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r3gy53gv.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Fixing the tests for such effects would mean somehow parsing the TAGS
> files, extracting the numbers, and correcting them for the inserted
> text, which sounds like a PITA for something that happens once a year.
> Is there an easier way?
Sure: strip the copyright lines from the files before feeding the files into the
test. That should be an easy prepass.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-30 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-30 10:35 Copyright years update in etags test suite Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 18:18 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-30 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 18:28 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-01-30 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 18:33 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-30 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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