fix(man): Add correct date and version to manpage

The previous approach relied on manually updating the version and date
using a Makefile

This approach dynamically gathers the correct version from git and uses
the date of the latest commit in the branch
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patrick96 2018-11-05 16:10:30 +01:00 committed by NBonaparte
parent 669469f149
commit 6f88fe11a9
4 changed files with 15 additions and 1 deletions

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.gitignore vendored
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/build*
/doc/config
/include/settings.hpp
/man/polybar.1
/polybar
/polybar-msg
/tags

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@ -38,4 +38,5 @@ configure_file(
${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/settings.hpp
ESCAPE_QUOTES @ONLY)
set(APP_VERSION ${APP_VERSION} PARENT_SCOPE)
set(dirs ${dirs} PARENT_SCOPE)

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# Gets the date of the latest commit in the form YYYY-MM-DD
# This date is used in the man page
execute_process(COMMAND git log -1 --date=format:%Y-%m-%d --format=%cd
WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}
OUTPUT_VARIABLE LAST_COMMIT_DATE
OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
set(MAN_PAGES_1 polybar.1)
configure_file(
${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/${MAN_PAGES_1}.cmake
${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/${MAN_PAGES_1}
ESCAPE_QUOTES @ONLY)
INSTALL(FILES ${MAN_PAGES_1}
DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/man/man1
COMPONENT doc)

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.TH polybar 1 2017-01-26 "polybar 3.0.2" "User Manual"
.TH polybar 1 @LAST_COMMIT_DATE@ "polybar @APP_VERSION@" "User Manual"
.SH NAME
polybar \- A fast and easy-to-use tool status bar
.SH SYNOPSIS