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 <djcbecr...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Alex Vincent <ajvinc...@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. > -- "The first step in confirming there is a bug in someone else's work is confirming there are no bugs in your own." -- Alexander J. Vincent, June 30, 2001
