EmbarkStudios / EmbarkStudios/cargo-about
Trim whitespace when comparing license texts
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- Rust
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- 787
- Forks
- 49
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
As shown in #227, the current method of requiring license texts to match exactly is maybe a bit too harsh if they only differ by whitespace at the beginning or end of the text.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the behavior described in #227 and locate the code that compares license texts. The change is complete when leading and trailing whitespace no longer causes otherwise matching license texts to differ, while substantive text differences still do.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100