Every single doc page has raw 'Last changed: $Date$' still stuck in it

[jidanni]

Every single doc page has this raw 'Last changed: $Date$' stuck in it

$ w3m -dump https://grass.osgeo.org/grass79/manuals/helptext.html | fgrep $
Last changed: $Date$

which make zero sense to the reader.

[jidanni]

< which make zero sense to the reader.
> which makes zero sense to the reader.

[neteler]

For the related discussion, see ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/11 and grass-dev archive

[jidanni]

Perhaps just strip it off, until the fix is confirmed.

[neteler]

ok agreed: I have commented out the old SVN $Date$ entries:

​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/200

[neteler]

Fixed in

• master: ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/commit/69be6c5f9a8d794ecffb9b8072c6e932984d07e5
• relbranch78: ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/commit/1a1d107e4f6e1b846f9841c2c6fabf015c5f720d

[Bas Couwenberg]

You can use $Format:%ci$ in the file and mark such files with export-subst in .gitattributes.

From gitattributes(5):

export-subst

If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then Git will expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive. The expansion depends on the availability of a commit ID, i.e., if git-archive(1) has been given a tree instead of a commit or a tag then no replacement will be done. The placeholders are the same as those for the option --pretty=format: of git-log(1), except that they need to be wrapped like this: $Format:PLACEHOLDERS$ in the file. E.g. the string $Format:%H$ will be replaced by the commit hash.