Add $Author$ and $Date$ convertions to git commit

[TheSin-]

eed to add $Author$ and $Date$ convertions to git commit.

see https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Attributes#Keyword-Expansion for examples

[TheSin-]

looks like the link provided is client side which means all users need to remember to set it up, which isn't ideal.

I also explored git hooks, .git/hook/update specifically since it runs server side. But to enable this you need to get the file on the server git repo and GitHub doesn't provide shell access.

The only idea I have currently is on the web server side, when I update the website I could process the list of updated files and use

for i in <updated files *.php>; do
author=`git log -1 --pretty=format:'%an' $i;
date=`git log -1 --pretty=format:'%ai' $i;
sed -i -e 's/\$Author\$/$Author: ${author} $/g $i;
sed -i -e 's/\$Date\$/$Date: ${date} $/g $i;
done

to get the author and date and injected it by hand at that point. Only down side is that we should a reset the git to only show $Date$ and $Author$ since it'll never update in the repo. And there would be a slight race condition, since to update a modified file I'd have to do a hard reset on the repo then update then loop and fix, during that time page loads would display 'Date' and 'Author' literally. Though with GitHub this might be the only and best option?