How to capture/generate revisions of page?

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Hi

I had the similar need. Here is the method I use :

  • I commit with a message
  • in my CI i call a schell script :
    • make a directory data/commits
    • find all the markdown files
    • for each create a json file with all the commits of this file
  • in my layouts, I read the file in data/commits corresponding to the markdown file and I display the information.

Hera are the codes as is.

Script

mkdir -p data/commits

find content -name "*.md" | while read line; do
    contentline=${line#"content/"};
    filename=$(echo -n $contentline | md5sum | cut -f 1 -d " ");
    log=$(git log --pretty=format:'{%n  "commit": "%H",%n  "author": "%aN",%n  "commit_date": "%ci",%n  "message": "%s"%n},' "$line" | perl -pe 'BEGIN{print "["}; END{print "]\n"}' | perl -pe 's/},]/}]/');
     echo $log > "data/commits/$filename.json";
done

Here the part of the template

{{ $currentPage := . }}
{{ $jsonFile := "" }}
{{ with $currentPage.File }}
    {{ $currentPagemd5 := md5 $currentPage.File.Path }}
    {{ $currentPagemd5ext := (print $currentPagemd5 ".json")}}
    {{ $files := readDir "data/commits/" }}
    {{if gt (len $files ) 0}}
        <div class="bord-bas"></div>
        <div>
        <details>
            <summary>Changements de la page</summary>
            <div>
            {{ range $files }}
                {{ if eq .Name $currentPagemd5ext }}
                    {{ $jsonFile := $currentPagemd5 }}
                    {{ $data := index $.Site.Data.commits $jsonFile }}
                    <ul>
                    {{ range $data }}
                        <li>
                            {{ dateFormat "02/01/2006" .commit_date }} : {{ trim .message "\n" }} ({{ .author }})
                        </li>
                    {{ end }}
                    </ul>
                {{ end }}
            {{ end }}
            </div>
        </details>
        </div>
    {{ end }}
{{ end }}

Hope this helps