Maintaining @editDate

[wlandau]

@editDate is an interesting idea, but it seems like the sort of thing I would forget to update over the life cycle of a package. Are there any guardrails in place, e.g. Git hooks, to make sure @editDate gets updated when a change is made?

[thebioengineer]

None at the moment, I had not found this to be too much of a pain since we enforced it as part of CR. It could be compared to the standard practice of updating the header in a file whenever changes are made.

That being said, a git hook would not be a bad idea. It was also suggested to use git blame - which is totally an option if you have your package under version control. Or you could use git blame