Merge and Update copyrights git clean -dfx perl util/merge_copyrights diff util/copyrights util/newcopyrights ... examine output, particularly any files with the "?" type, and ... then edit util/newcopyrights if necessary $ mv util/newcopyrights util/copyrights $ perl util/update_copyrights < util/copyrights $ git diff ... examine output, edit as necessary. mail me about anything that ... the script should have been able to do itself. :-) $ git add util/copyrights $ git commit -m 'update_copyrights'