From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 14:35:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <85mzraqm9k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17020.9976.943092.382629@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115490729 3855 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2005 18:32:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 18:32:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 20:32:07 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUU5d-0002RB-4s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 20:31:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUUDa-0004yE-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:40:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUUD4-0004u9-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:39:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUUCz-0004pp-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUUCz-0004pf-JD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUUFq-0004yQ-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:42:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DUU9Z-0006uX-Ve; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:35:54 -0400 Original-To: Nick Roberts In-reply-to: <17020.9976.943092.382629@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Sat, 7 May 2005 14:24:56 +1200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36820 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36820 cvs annotate cmacexp.el > files.ann grep "..-...-05" cmacexp.ann | wc 13 104 962 13 < 15 => don't add copyright year. That would be easy but it wouldn't give the right answer. counting lines changed is not the same As counting the size of the changes. If the change is to rename foo to bar everywhere, that really counts as just one word of change even though it may be repeated many times. How about developing a script to update these changes automatically? This is not a mechanical question and it can't be answered by a script.