go-update-license-copyright-year

Update Github repositories license copyright year

I wanted to update the license files of all my Github repositories

What it does

Works with any license which has one of the following types of copyright lines:

• Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Andrei Avram
• Copyright (c) 2016 Andrei Avram

It will just update/add the current year (or any you wish) for the copyright line. If the year is 2017, the above two lines will be changed to:

• Copyright (c) 2014-2017 Andrei Avram
• Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Andrei Avram

Usage

• go run !(*_test).go

• Possible actions

  • List repositories: Only the username is needed
  • Update license: Username and access token needed

• Required data will be prompted

  • Username: your Github username
  • Github access token: Your personal access token for Github API
  • License filenames: Possible names of your license files (leave empty to keep default)
  • Branch: The branch to make the changes on (leave empty to keep default)
  • Commit message: The commit message you wish to set for the changes (leave empty to keep default)
  • Current year (leave empty to keep current year)

• Github access token

  • https://github.com/settings/tokens
  • Select scopes: repo