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Pekko and its projects uses sbt-header in order to check that all source content has the correct headers. In order to check the headers for a project you can run the following

sbt headerCheckAll


A success will provide a result that looks like this

sbt-header success
<@incubator-pekko>-<⎇ main>-<*>-> sbt headerCheckAll
[info] welcome to sbt 1.9.2 (Homebrew Java 11.0.19)
[info] loading global plugins from /Users/mdedetrich/.sbt/1.0/plugins
[info] loading settings for project incubator-pekko-build-build-build from metals.sbt ...
[info] loading project definition from /Users/mdedetrich/github/incubator-pekko/project/project/project
[info] loading settings for project incubator-pekko-build-build from metals.sbt ...
[info] loading project definition from /Users/mdedetrich/github/incubator-pekko/project/project
[success] Generated .bloop/incubator-pekko-build-build.json
[success] Total time: 0 s, completed 19 Jul 2023, 16:41:57
[info] loading settings for project incubator-pekko-build from metals.sbt,plugins.sbt ...
[info] loading project definition from /Users/mdedetrich/github/incubator-pekko/project
[success] Generated .bloop/incubator-pekko-build.json
[success] Total time: 2 s, completed 19 Jul 2023, 16:41:59
[info] loading settings for project pekko from build.sbt ...
[info] resolving key references (65176 settings) ...
[info] 
[info] ________     ______ ______        
[info] ___  __ \_______  /____  /_______ 
[info] __  /_/ /  _ \_  //_/_  //_/  __ \
[info] _  ____//  __/  ,<  _  ,<  / /_/ /
[info] /_/     \___//_/|_| /_/|_| \____/   1.0.1-RC1+1-24050622-SNAPSHOT
[info] 
[info] Useful sbt tasks:
[info] >  compile - Compile the current project
[info] >  test - Run all the tests
[info] >  testQuick - Runs all the tests. When run multiple times will only run previously failing tests (shell mode only)
[info] >  testOnly *.AnySpec - Only run a selected test
[info] >  testQuick *.AnySpec - Only run a selected test. When run multiple times will only run previously failing tests (shell mode only)
[info] >  testQuickUntilPassed - Runs all tests in a continuous loop until all tests pass
[info] >  publishLocal - Publish current snapshot version to local ~/.ivy2 repo
[info] >  verifyCodeStyle - Verify code style
[info] >  applyCodeStyle - Apply code style
[info] >  sortImports - Sort the imports
[info] >  mimaReportBinaryIssues  - Check binary issues
[info] >  validatePullRequest  - Validate pull request
[info] >  docs/paradox - Build documentation
[info] >  docs/paradoxBrowse - Browse the generated documentation
[info] >  tips: - prefix commands with `+` to run against cross Scala versions.
[info] >  Contributing guide: - https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[success] Total time: 4 s, completed 19 Jul 2023, 16:42:11


Where as a failure would look like this

sbt-header failure
<@incubator-pekko>-<⎇ main>-<*>-> sbt headerCheckAll
[info] welcome to sbt 1.9.2 (Homebrew Java 11.0.19)
[info] loading global plugins from /Users/mdedetrich/.sbt/1.0/plugins
[info] loading settings for project incubator-pekko-build-build-build from metals.sbt ...
[info] loading project definition from /Users/mdedetrich/github/incubator-pekko/project/project/project
[info] loading settings for project incubator-pekko-build-build from metals.sbt ...
[info] loading project definition from /Users/mdedetrich/github/incubator-pekko/project/project
[success] Generated .bloop/incubator-pekko-build-build.json
[success] Total time: 0 s, completed 19 Jul 2023, 16:43:35
[info] loading settings for project incubator-pekko-build from metals.sbt,plugins.sbt ...
[info] loading project definition from /Users/mdedetrich/github/incubator-pekko/project
[success] Generated .bloop/incubator-pekko-build.json
[success] Total time: 1 s, completed 19 Jul 2023, 16:43:36
[info] loading settings for project pekko from build.sbt,version.sbt ...
[info] resolving key references (65178 settings) ...
[info] 
[info] ________     ______ ______        
[info] ___  __ \_______  /____  /_______ 
[info] __  /_/ /  _ \_  //_/_  //_/  __ \
[info] _  ____//  __/  ,<  _  ,<  / /_/ /
[info] /_/     \___//_/|_| /_/|_| \____/   1.0.1-RC1
[info] 
[info] Useful sbt tasks:
[info] >  compile - Compile the current project
[info] >  test - Run all the tests
[info] >  testQuick - Runs all the tests. When run multiple times will only run previously failing tests (shell mode only)
[info] >  testOnly *.AnySpec - Only run a selected test
[info] >  testQuick *.AnySpec - Only run a selected test. When run multiple times will only run previously failing tests (shell mode only)
[info] >  testQuickUntilPassed - Runs all tests in a continuous loop until all tests pass
[info] >  publishLocal - Publish current snapshot version to local ~/.ivy2 repo
[info] >  verifyCodeStyle - Verify code style
[info] >  applyCodeStyle - Apply code style
[info] >  sortImports - Sort the imports
[info] >  mimaReportBinaryIssues  - Check binary issues
[info] >  validatePullRequest  - Validate pull request
[info] >  docs/paradox - Build documentation
[info] >  docs/paradoxBrowse - Browse the generated documentation
[info] >  tips: - prefix commands with `+` to run against cross Scala versions.
[info] >  Contributing guide: - https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[error] There are files without headers!
[error]   /Users/mdedetrich/github/incubator-pekko/actor/src/main/scala/org/apache/pekko/actor/AbstractActor.scala
[error] (actor / Compile / headerCheck) There are files without headers!
[error]   /Users/mdedetrich/github/incubator-pekko/actor/src/main/scala/org/apache/pekko/actor/AbstractActor.scala
[error] Total time: 2 s, completed 19 Jul 2023, 16:43:43


You can also create headers for source files that don't currently contain one by running


sbt headerCreateAll


This will for example add the standard Apache header to the top of the source files but it will also handle other cases such as adding the Apache SPDX header to configuration files.

All of Pekko projects run the header check on every PR which in addition to protected branches + strict status check helps alleviate regressions in license headers, i.e. using core Pekko project as an example


Do note that while its possible to use other tools to check for headers (such as rat) its not recommend because all of the header requirements that resulted from legal discussions such as Unable to render Jira issues macro, execution error. which are specific/bespoke to Pekko and Pekko only are encoded into sbt-header. This style of programmatic checking of headers (such as https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko/blob/main/project/CopyrightHeader.scala as an example) isn't possible in rat.

Ontop of this since Pekko projects use sbt as a build tool, sbt-header (which is an sbt plugin) is aware of the difference between generated sources (i.e. from templates/macros) which are NOT part of the source distribution and actual sources. rat cannot tell the difference which means it may incorrectly mark files as needing headers if you didn't clean the project after building it.

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