How to annodate all files in a directory

[fhg-isi]

I tried to use the annotate option with the current directory:

reuse annotate --copyright="Foo" --copyright-style=string-symbol --license=AGPL-3.0-or-later .

However, it only seems to support single files.

=> How can I apply it recursively for a whole directory?

[fhg-isi]

As a workaround, something like

find . -type f -exec reuse annotate --copyright="Foo" --copyright-style=string-symbol --license=AGPL-3.0-or-later {} \;

might do the trick. However, that won't work with the GitHub action

https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-action

[fhg-isi]

The --recursive and --skip-unrecognised options help with that:

reuse annotate --copyright="Foo" --copyright-style=string-symbol --license=AGPL-3.0-or-later --recursive --skip-unrecognised .

Maybe you want to include that in the documentation at

https://reuse.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html

Further note:

I got an error

annotate: error: The following files do not have a recognised file extension. Please use --style, --force-dot-license or --skip-unrecognised:
.idea\\foo.iml

and resolved this by adding the .idea folder to my .gitignore list.

In some cases it could be helpful to be able to exclude folders from the recursion.
Related: #804

[johann-wurz]

The --recursive and --skip-unrecognised options help with that:

reuse annotate --copyright="Foo" --copyright-style=string-symbol --license=AGPL-3.0-or-later --recursive --skip-unrecognised .

Unfortunately, this does not work. The --recursive passphrase didn't do anything in my case. Using the above workaround applying find works properly.