manpages expect the date of the last revision, if that is not found DocBook Stylesheets go through a series of hacks to generate one with the format `%d/%d/%Y` which is not ideal. In addition to this format not being standard, different tools generate dates with different formats. There's no need for any confusion if we specify the revision date, so let's do so. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> --- This patch requires [1] to actually work, and has a simple conflict with [2], so it's written on top of both. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20230323221523.52472-1-felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20230408001829.11031-1-felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx/ Documentation/Makefile | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 3133ea3182..b629176d7d 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -144,13 +144,16 @@ man5dir = $(mandir)/man5 man7dir = $(mandir)/man7 # DESTDIR = +GIT_DATE := $(shell git show --quiet --pretty='%as') + ASCIIDOC = asciidoc ASCIIDOC_EXTRA = ASCIIDOC_HTML = xhtml11 ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK = docbook ASCIIDOC_CONF = -f asciidoc.conf ASCIIDOC_COMMON = $(ASCIIDOC) $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) $(ASCIIDOC_CONF) \ - -amanmanual='Git Manual' -amansource='Git $(GIT_VERSION)' + -amanmanual='Git Manual' -amansource='Git $(GIT_VERSION)' \ + -arevdate='$(GIT_DATE)' ASCIIDOC_DEPS = asciidoc.conf GIT-ASCIIDOCFLAGS TXT_TO_HTML = $(ASCIIDOC_COMMON) -b $(ASCIIDOC_HTML) TXT_TO_XML = $(ASCIIDOC_COMMON) -b $(ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK) -- 2.40.0+fc1
