NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::Miscellanea::RequireRcsKeywords

DESCRIPTION

Every code file, no matter how small, should be kept in a source-control repository. Adding the magical RCS keywords to your file helps the reader know where the file comes from, in case he or she needs to modify it. This Policy scans your file for comments that look like this:

# $Revision: 633 $
# $Source: /myproject/lib/foo.pm $

A common practice is to use the Revision keyword to automatically define the $VERSION variable like this:

our ($VERSION) = '$Revision: 633 $' =~ m{ \$Revision: \s+ (\S+) }x;

CONSTRUCTOR

By default, this policy only requires the Revision, Source, and Date keywords. To specify alternate keywords, pass them into the constructor as a key-value pair, where the key is 'keywords' and the value is a whitespace delimited series of keywords (without the dollar-signs). Or specify them in your .perlcriticrc file like this:

[Miscellanea::RequireRcsKeywords]
keywords = Revision Source Date Author Id

See the documentation on RCS for a list of supported keywords. Many source control systems are descended from RCS, so the keywords supported by CVS and Subversion are probably the same.

AUTHOR

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <thaljef@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.