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- Add detectFirstCommitYear() function to auto-detect first commit year - Update FormatCopyrightYears() to use auto-detection when copyright_year not set - Graceful fallback to current year if git unavailable - Explicit copyright_year in config always takes precedence - Add comprehensive unit tests for auto-detection - Update README documentation to explain auto-detection behavior This enhancement eliminates the need to manually configure copyright_year for existing repositories, reducing configuration time from ~30min to ~2min per repo for the TF-337 rollout.
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- Add fetch-depth: 0 to checkout action in golang-test job - This ensures git log can find the first commit for auto-detection - Revert test to strict validation now that full history is available
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- I think the better approach would be to fetch the year-1 information from workflow and pass it as parameter into copywrite tool.
- For private and internal repos, it might face authentication issues. GH APP Token and Key will be present in the GH secrets and they can be used to authenticate to any repo across Hashicorp Organisation.
- Workflows will stay in the Copyright-notice-automation repo which is private so key will be not exposed as well.
- For repos where copyright year is different from the first commit year, teams can reach out and we can either hardcode that information in copyright-notice-automation repo or save the year in config(giving it higher priority).
Code is still missing update on files where code changes are made. If a file is updated then the year-2 should be updated only for that file, rather than the entire repo. That functionality needs to be introduced.
- Changed template from 'Copyright (c) YEAR HOLDER' to 'Copyright (c) HOLDER YEAR' - Now produces correct IBM format: 'Copyright (c) IBM Corp. 2023, 2026' - Updated both tmplSPDX and tmplCopyrightOnly templates
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