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Subject: Re: Could guix lint check the copyright line?
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 22:21:01 +0200
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Hi!

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> Wouldn't it be neat if guix lint would automatically spot missing
> copyright lines in the file headers?  It could rely on `git blame' to
> identify who wrote more than some 15 lines in a file.
>
> What do you think?

That check would have to be optional because =E2=80=98guix lint=E2=80=99 is=
 not
necessarily running from a Git checkout.  Also, I wonder how frequent
false-positives would be.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.