Date in manpage is out of sync with commit/release date

[gnomon-]

In trurl.1, as of commit 0942de3, the man page specifies that the date of the manual is 2023-04-27:

$ grep -E '^\.TH trurl 1' trurl.1
.TH trurl 1 "April 27, 2023" "trurl" "trurl Manual"

It could be possible to add a step in the Makefile that updates this value as necessary to match the date of the repo commit at compilation time, e.g. with something like:

git log -n1 HEAD --date=format:'%B %d, %Y' --pretty=format:'%ad'

...which for that same aforementioned commit would yield..:

July 29, 2024

I also find it useful that the git.1 man page includes the release version in it, which lets me quickly check if the version I have compiled and installed from source is the one I expected, but the extra complication required to achieve this might not be worth the trouble.

[bagder]

Fair. It is time to create a script to run at release time to fixup the files as necessary: the date/version in trurl.1 and the version in version.h.

[gnomon-]

You are a gentleman and a scholar, sir.