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merge-script 7f295e1d9b Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#34084: scripted-diff: [doc] Unify stale copyright headers
fa4cb13b52 test: [doc] Manually unify stale headers (MarcoFalke)
fa5f297748 scripted-diff: [doc] Unify stale copyright headers (MarcoFalke)

Pull request description:

  Historically, the upper year range in file headers was bumped manually
  or with a script.

  This has many issues:

  * The script is causing churn. See for example commit 306ccd4, or
    drive-by first-time contributions bumping them one-by-one. (A few from
    this year: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32008,
    https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31642,
    https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32963, ...)
  * Some, or likely most, upper year values were wrong. Reasons for
    incorrect dates could be code moves, cherry-picks, or simply bugs in
    the script.
  * The upper range is not needed for anything.
  * Anyone who wants to find the initial file creation date, or file
    history, can use `git log` or `git blame` to get more accurate
    results.
  * Many places are already using the `-present` suffix, with the meaning
    that the upper range is omitted.

  To fix all issues, this bumps the upper range of the copyright headers
  to `-present`.

  Further notes:

  * Obviously, the yearly 4-line bump commit for the build system (c.f.
    b537a2c02a) is fine and will remain.
  * For new code, the date range can be fully omitted, as it is done
    already by some developers. Obviously, developers are free to pick
    whatever style they want. One can list the commits for each style.
  * For example, to list all commits that use `-present`:
    `git log --format='%an (%ae) [%h: %s]' -S 'present The Bitcoin'`.
  * Alternatively, to list all commits that use no range at all:
    `git log --format='%an (%ae) [%h: %s]' -S '(c) The Bitcoin'`.

  <!--
  * The lower range can be wrong as well, so it could be omitted as well,
    but this is left for a follow-up. A previous attempt was in
    https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26817.

ACKs for top commit:
  l0rinc:
    ACK fa4cb13b52
  rkrux:
    re-ACK fa4cb13b52
  janb84:
    ACK fa4cb13b52

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This folder contains lint scripts.

Running locally

To run linters locally with the same versions as the CI environment, use the included Dockerfile:

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --platform=linux --tag=bitcoin-linter --file="./ci/lint_imagefile" ./ && docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/bitcoin -it bitcoin-linter

Building the container can be done every time, because it is fast when the result is cached and it prevents issues when the image changes.

test runner

To run all the lint checks in the test runner outside the docker you first need to install the rust toolchain using your package manager of choice or rustup.

Then you can use:

( cd ./test/lint/test_runner/ && cargo fmt && cargo clippy && RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo run )

If you wish to run individual lint checks, run the test_runner with --lint=TEST_TO_RUN arguments. If running with cargo run, arguments after -- are passed to the binary you are running e.g.:

( cd ./test/lint/test_runner/ && RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo run -- --lint=doc --lint=trailing_whitespace )

To see a list of all individual lint checks available in test_runner, use -h or --help:

( cd ./test/lint/test_runner/ && RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo run -- --help )

Dependencies

Lint test Dependency
lint-python.py lief
lint-python.py mypy
lint-python.py pyzmq
lint-python-dead-code.py vulture
lint-shell.py ShellCheck
py_lint ruff
markdown link check mlc

In use versions and install instructions are available in the CI setup.

Please be aware that on Linux distributions all dependencies are usually available as packages, but could be outdated.

Running the tests

Individual tests can be run by directly calling the test script, e.g.:

test/lint/lint-files.py

check-doc.py

Check for missing documentation of command line options.

commit-script-check.sh

Verification of scripted diffs. Scripted diffs are only assumed to run on the latest LTS release of Ubuntu. Running them on other operating systems might require installing GNU tools, such as GNU sed.

git-subtree-check.sh

Run this script from the root of the repository to verify that a subtree matches the contents of the commit it claims to have been updated to.

Usage: test/lint/git-subtree-check.sh [-r] DIR [COMMIT]
       test/lint/git-subtree-check.sh -?
  • DIR is the prefix within the repository to check.
  • COMMIT is the commit to check, if it is not provided, HEAD will be used.
  • -r checks that subtree commit is present in repository.

To do a full check with -r, make sure that you have fetched the upstream repository branch in which the subtree is maintained:

Keep this list in sync with fn get_subtrees() in the lint runner.

To do so, add the upstream repository as remote:

git remote add --fetch secp256k1 https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1.git

lint_ignore_dirs.py

Add list of common directories to ignore when running tests