Re: [RFC] [pre-commit] Add check-new-file-license

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> writes:

Tom> I forgot to add a copyright notice to a file.
Tom> I came across gdb/contrib/license-check-new-files.sh, and ran it out of
Tom> curiosity, and it pointed out the file.

I didn't know about this file.  Weird that it has a '.sh' extension.

Tom> Add a pre-commit check check-new-file-license that runs the script.

Tom> The check is only run for new files, because it's fairly slow, about 2 seconds
Tom> for an empty file:

Hmm that really is quite slow.  Is it 2 seconds per invocation or per
new file?

Also the script seems to run git but I wonder if that's even necessary
in this setup.

Tom