Every page on every version has the same 'last updated' date

[ijmitch]

Description

As per title I'm seeing every page of every version of the docs with "Last updated: 11/06/2024" - so what's the point of having that if they're all the same?

Pages to Update

Every single page!

Screenshots

And the same 'Architecture' page from an older version:

Expected behavior

Additional context

[ijmitch]

I must admit I'd not spotted the day on all the pages was actually yesterday's date - ie the day when I created this issue. Checking today, it's still saying the same thing (so it's not like this gets fixed as "today's date"). Did something happen yesterday to make all the pages appear changed?

[balhar-jakub]

Yes, we were publishing the 1.28.7 release yesterday, which means that all the pages were touched, but not necessarily changed.

I believe it's relevant bug to look into. Make sure that the last updated changes only for pages where content actually changed.

[ijmitch]

@balhar-jakub ah, OK - so at least it can be associated with an action.

So is this implemented via the showLastUpdateTime option? That should work off commit history - was there a mass commit somewhere?

[ijmitch]

You probably suffered this https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/discussions/9734.

The problem is that the default depth for the actions/checkout@v4 action is 1 (latest commit only), and in this case git log cannot retrieve the dates of previous commits; instead it returns the date of the latest commit (the only one cloned), for all files, and all documentation pages appear to be updated at the same time.

Which boils down to the build process not having enough/any commit history.

[balhar-jakub]

I am trying fix to this in the PR - https://github.com/zowe/docs-site/pull/3715

[balhar-jakub]

The fix was merged and deployed. As such I am closing the issue.