insert-license-header 1.0.1

Tool to insert license headers at the beginning of text-based files.

Tool: insert-license-header

This python script automatically inserts your license header at the beginning of specified source code files.

Forked from Lucas-C/pre-commit-hooks and modified to realize the following behaviour:

Add argument --dynamic-years which determines the start year of the copyright time range automatically - based on when the file was first tracked with Git. If a start year is already present, it is not touched. If a file is not tracked by Git, the current year is used as start year. The end year is automatically set to the current year (--use-current-year is activated automatically when --dynamic-years is present). Include a {year_start} and {year_end} in your license header to use this feature.

Add argument --license-base64 to include a license not via a file but through a base64 encoded string that is passed as a value for this argument. Obtain your license base64 encoded string with cat LICENSE.txt | base64. Including a license via --license-base64 {base64string} overrides the --license-filepath option.

:warning: This is not a pre-commit hook anymore. Instead, this repository contains just the base script to insert licenses in text-based files. To check out the resulting pre-commit hook, visit: TBA.