Swiftformat: No header comments

[mergesort]

I wanted to suggest another feature. I'd love a SwiftFormat rule to remove the default comments that Xcode adds in when creating a new file. They usually look like this:

//
//  File.swift
//  Company
//
//  Created by Name on Date.
//  Copyright © Year Company. All rights reserved.
//

This would allow my team to stop using custom templates, or having to remember to remove the comments at the top of files.

Would love to hear what you think!

[nicklockwood]

This is a great idea. The main challenge is how to implement the name and date substitution.

I guess the date could be the file creation date. The name could come from the system, but that wouldn't work if you were running SwiftFormat on a CI server.

[delebedev]

@nicklockwood, I think @mergesort (please correct me if I am wrong) means to delete header comments completely, not shaping them in uniform format.
My team does the same, we are not interested in any header info like author / date, we have to manually delete them everytime.

[nicklockwood]

@mergesort @garnett ah, I see. That's certainly simpler, but most places I've worked at prefer to have a custom header format rather than strip it completely.

Still, I guess I can implement the simpler case first, and consider a custom header later.

[mergesort]

I did indeed want the simpler case, just to plainly to delete the headers. That said, the other options seem pretty cool too, and I'd throw a vote for them as well.

[nicklockwood]

Stripping header comments is implemented in v0.17. Use --header strip as the command line option. (Replacing with a different header is not currently supported.)