Depoverflow

This tool checks your source code for references to Stackoverflow answers and GitHub issues and warns you if those change.

Why?

There are plenty of tools that will let you know if your package dependencies have changed (poetry show -o, npm outdated, ...). There are even cloud-based services like Dependabot.

However, if you copy/paste code from Stackoverflow answers or GitHub issues, you will never be notified of updates.

Features

• Find references to Stackoverflow answers and questions in code comments, to alert of edits and/or comments
• Find references to GitHub issues in code comments, to alert of open and close events and/or comments
• Optionally supports specific keywords such as "Works around"
• Saves current status of referenced items in a TOML file (similar to a lockfile), that you can check into version control (or not)

How to use

Install the tool: pip install depoverflow

Create a configuration file depoverflow.toml with the list of source file patterns you want to read (in Python glob format):

sources = [
    "src/**.py",
    "tests.py",
    "native/*.c",
]

Run the tool: depoverflow.

A file depoverflow.status will be created, which you can check into version control or not. It is a TOML file containing the current status of the items you reference from your code, so that a warning can be shown the next time they change.