doc: doc-diff: specify date

Earlier we changed the manual page formatting machinery to use the dates from the commit the documentation source was taken from, instead of the date the manual page was produced. When "doc-diff" compares two commits from different dates, the different dates from the two commits would result in unnecessary differences in the output because of the change. Compensate by setting a fixed date when "doc-diff" formats the pages to be compared to work around this issue. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Felipe Contreras committed May 3, 2023 at 17:23 UTC 1c301bcaa56fee40d5c52ddc3a6c3f03b350073c
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index 1694300e50..554a78a12d 100755 --- a/Documentation/doc-diff +++ b/Documentation/doc-diff @@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ render_tree () { make -j$parallel -C "$tmp/worktree" \ $makemanflags \ GIT_VERSION=omitted \ + GIT_DATE=1970-01-01 \ SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0 \ DESTDIR="$tmp/installed/$dname+" \ install-man &&