Unlike the manpages, git's HTML documentation does not include the
version number it was generated from. (It does include a "last
modified" date.)
How about this patch? With it applied, the HTML rendering of a
manpage ends with
Version 2.1.0.rc2.3.g67de23d
Last updated 2014-08-08 14:25:29 PDT
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
diff --git i/Documentation/Makefile w/Documentation/Makefile
index cea0e7a..94d55f4 100644
--- i/Documentation/Makefile
+++ w/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -305,13 +305,13 @@ clean:
$(MAN_HTML): %.html : %.txt asciidoc.conf
$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
$(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf \
- $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $< && \
+ $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -arevnumber=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $< && \
mv $@+ $@
$(OBSOLETE_HTML): %.html : %.txto asciidoc.conf
$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
$(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -f asciidoc.conf \
- $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $< && \
+ $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -arevnumber=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $< && \
mv $@+ $@
manpage-base-url.xsl: manpage-base-url.xsl.in
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ manpage-base-url.xsl: manpage-base-url.xsl.in
%.xml : %.txt asciidoc.conf
$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
$(ASCIIDOC) -b docbook -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf \
- $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $< && \
+ $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -arevnumber=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $< && \
mv $@+ $@
user-manual.xml: user-manual.txt user-manual.conf
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ technical/api-index.txt: technical/api-index-skel.txt \
technical/%.html: ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-relative-html-prefix=../
$(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index $(TECH_DOCS)): %.html : %.txt asciidoc.conf
$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -f asciidoc.conf \
- $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) $*.txt
+ $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -arevnumber=$(GIT_VERSION) $*.txt
XSLT = docbook.xsl
XSLTOPTS = --xinclude --stringparam html.stylesheet docbook-xsl.css
diff --git i/Documentation/asciidoc.conf w/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
index 2c16c53..02e4dcc 100644
--- i/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
+++ w/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ template::[header-declarations]
<refentrytitle>{mantitle}</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>{manvolnum}</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Git</refmiscinfo>
-<refmiscinfo class="version">{git_version}</refmiscinfo>
+<refmiscinfo class="version">{revnumber}</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="manual">Git Manual</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>