Re: RFE: Add Subversion keyword for year

Semantically, that's a good question: does the keyword apply to a checkout
or a checkin?

I would personally expect the last checkin year. This reflects when the
file was last updated, which is what really matters in copyrights, as I
understand them. (IANAL, though.)

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Daniel Becroft <djcbecroft_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Alex Vincent <ajvincent_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm currently in the process of updating copyright notices where I work.
>> To me, this is an ideal place for a SVN keyword:
>>
>> Copyright 2008-$Year$ MyCompany
>>
>> The SVN keywords listed in the online documentation list Date, but it's
>> far too specific for a copyright. As an alternate, perhaps a special
>> formatting keyword for dates could be established: $Date(YYYY)$, for
>> example.
>>
>
> AFAIK, the $Date keyword works off the last time the particular file was
> updated. Are you expecting this new $Year$ value to always be current (ie
> 2011), or only reflect the year in which the file was last modified (ie
> 2009)?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel B.
>

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