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ENH: Upstream extract_entities and check_pipeline_version BIDS utilities from fMRIPrep #1028

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@oesteban

Summary

fMRIPrep contains general-purpose BIDS utilities in `fmriprep/utils/bids.py` that are not fMRI-specific:

`extract_entities` (lines 350-381)

Extracts common BIDS entities from a file list. Fully general and useful for any BIDS-based tool.

`check_pipeline_version` (lines 292-347)

Checks for version conflicts in existing output directories. Fully general for any *Prep tool that needs to detect output from a different pipeline version.

Code to upstream

  • `extract_entities` in `fmriprep/utils/bids.py`
  • `check_pipeline_version` in `fmriprep/utils/bids.py`

Rationale

  • Both functions are completely modality-agnostic
  • Every *Prep tool needs entity extraction and version conflict detection
  • Centralizing these avoids divergent implementations

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MEDIUM.

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