Subject: preventing people from editing HTML
To: None <netbsd-docs@NetBSD.org, www@NetBSD.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 02/27/2007 11:23:02
On and off, people send patches for HTML files instead of XML files.
I wonder if it's possible (somehow) to add some lines at the top of each 
of our generated files like:

   <!-- THIS FILE WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY, CHANGES WILL BE LOST! -->
   <!-- THIS FILE WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY, CHANGES WILL BE LOST! -->
   <!-- THIS FILE WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY, CHANGES WILL BE LOST! -->
   <!-- THIS FILE WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY, CHANGES WILL BE LOST! -->
   <!-- THIS FILE WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY, CHANGES WILL BE LOST! -->
   <!-- THIS FILE WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY, CHANGES WILL BE LOST! -->
   <!-- THIS FILE WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY, CHANGES WILL BE LOST! -->

(I prefer having such stuff for like half a screenfull, so veryone sees it 
:-)

Does anyone have an idea how to do that with the current tools?


  - Hubert