Hi everyone,
I don't know whether this question has already been raised, but everything is
in the title.
As a day-to-day hard git user ;), I also have to manage files with different
licenses I need to track.
As git handles all those files in a very smart way, I wondered whether git
could also handle that information, at least somehow.
That would greatly make my day, and I do think several other people could
have the same need, too.
Do you think this might be relevant?
Best regards,
Yohann
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Yohann Ferreira
[off-list ref] wrote:
As a day-to-day hard git user ;), I also have to manage files with different
licenses I need to track.
As git handles all those files in a very smart way, I wondered whether git
could also handle that information, at least somehow.
Say you have files like:
main.c
imglib.c
config.c
Why not just have these files:
license-info/GPL
license-info/SOME-OTHER-LICENSE
Which would contain, respectively:
main.c
config.c
And:
imglib.c
Then just have a script, maybe add it as a hook on your server before
it accepts a push which ensures that all files currently in the tree
are listed in those license-info/* files.
You could also just add a license header to each of these files, and
have a script that ensures that everything has such a header. I think
the Debian project has such a script that you could adapt.
Git just tracks files, so just do this in some file-based manner and
you'll be fine.