provide fail-on-diff flag to enable checking licence headers

[Batuhan Apaydın]

We (w/@Dentrax) thought that in scenarios such as checking license headers, we use addlicence tool like the following way:

  license-check:
    name: license boilerplate check
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: actions/setup-go@v2
        with:
          go-version: '1.17.x'
      - name: Install addlicense
        run: go install github.com/google/addlicense@latest
      - name: Check license headers
        run: |
          set -e
          addlicense -l apache -c 'The Sigstore Authors' -v *
          git diff --exit-code

As you can see from the above GitHub Action definition, we use additional git commands to check that is there any leaked license headers in the codebase, so, what we are proposing is that we add this logic into addlicence tool with an additional flag-like --fail-on-diff.

[Batuhan Apaydın]

would you mind assigning to us if you agree with this idea 🙋🏻‍♂️

[Batuhan Apaydın]

kindly ping @willnorris

[Will Norris]

Could you do this with the existing -check flag, which should return a non-zero status code if headers are missing ?

[Batuhan Apaydın]

ah thank you, we missed that flag 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Will Norris]

It sounds like -check will work for you, so I'm going to go ahead and close this. Feel free to reopen if it turns out that doesn't work.