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Konrad Windszus edited comment on DOXIASITETOOLS-329 at 2/9/24 1:48 PM:
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Maybe one needs a more sophisticated approach here, which relies on SCM
modification date. The filesystem one does not necessarily reflect a deliberate
content change either (compare with
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/350403/why-doesnt-git-set-the-file-time).
Update: Unfortunately the information is not exposed via via Maven SCM
providers (except for the SVN one). Although potentially this information is
exposed via `ScmProvider.info(...)`
(https://github.com/apache/maven-scm/blob/f5d8bb4fa69b0338377fd96a6cd3ec2499ad688c/maven-scm-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/scm/provider/ScmProvider.java#L943)
only the SVN provider ever calls the relevant
https://github.com/apache/maven-scm/blob/f5d8bb4fa69b0338377fd96a6cd3ec2499ad688c/maven-scm-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/scm/command/info/InfoItem.java#L124.
was (Author: kwin):
Maybe one needs a more sophisticated approach here, which relies on SCM
modification date. The filesystem one does not necessarily reflect a deliberate
content change either (compare with
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/350403/why-doesnt-git-set-the-file-time).
> Expose lastModification date in addition to publishDate in Velocity Context
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> Key: DOXIASITETOOLS-329
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DOXIASITETOOLS-329
> Project: Maven Doxia Sitetools
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Site renderer
> Reporter: Konrad Windszus
> Assignee: Konrad Windszus
> Priority: Major
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> Currently only the published date (the same for the whole site) is available
> in the Velocity context
> (https://github.com/apache/maven-doxia-sitetools/blob/5fe4a4c5359e6a23b78f385e15f77767cadaee99/doxia-site-renderer/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/doxia/siterenderer/DefaultSiteRenderer.java#L495).
> It would be useful to also populate the lastModification date of the doxia
> source file (if available).
> That way one could expose a more useful date for end-users (as the publish
> date rarely is equal to the date when a page was last touched). Obviously for
> Sinks/Documents not based on Doxia source files this is not available.
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