Spotless: year format string not working as expected

[geoHeil]

I have the following spotless configuration:

spotless {
        scala {
            scalafmt()
            licenseHeader('// Copyright (C) $YEAR ', 'package ')
        }
    }

Version is:

plugins {
  id "com.diffplug.gradle.spotless" version "3.16.0"
}

however, the generated output is still 2018 and 2019. What is causing this mixup? how can I fix it?

[thc202]

For existing well-formed license headers the year is not changed:
https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/tree/master/plugin-gradle#license-header-options
so it's possible to end up with multiple years in the same code base.
If you want always a specific year you can set it in the license (e.g. hardcode it or get the current year programmatically) instead of using the year token.

[nedtwigg]

You should checkout our new ratchetFrom 'origin/master' feature.