Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix --color option formatting

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2018, 23:37 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo9f18onf.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180720223608.GE18502@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

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> Both AsciiDoc 8.6.10 and Asciidoctor support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for
> reproducible builds[0], which should reduce the date noise.  We could
> also add a Makefile knob to set git_version to an empty string or an
> --abbrev=0 equivalent for such a situation.
>
> [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

I probably should take advantage of this feature and update the install target of Documentation/Makefile, where I manually filter out these noise changes between what is installed and what is going to be. That serves as my final sanity check before pushing out the result of an integration cycle that updates the 'master' branch, as that is when the pre-formatted html and man pages are updated, and as part of that, "make install" for these two formats are run to give me a chance to eyeball the differences.

Being able to lose the (impricise) manual filtering would be great.