Add ignored_commits_file option

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Thanks for considering to contribute to this project! Some guidelines:
 Make sure to install an editable version before running the tests:
 
 ```python
-pip install -r requirement_dev.txt
+pip install -r requirements_dev.txt
 pip install -e .
 pytest --cov=mkdocs_git_revision_date_localized_plugin --cov-report term-missing tests/
 ```

docs/options.md

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ You can customize the plugin by setting options in `mkdocs.yml`. For example:
         enable_git_follow: true
         enabled: true
         strict: true
+        ignored_commits_file: .git-blame-ignore-revs
   ```
 
 ## `type`
@@ -155,3 +156,18 @@ Default is `true`. When enabled, the logs will show warnings when something is w
     - git-revision-date-localized:
         strict: true
   ```
+
+## `ignored_commits_file`
+
+Default is `None`. You can specify a file path (relative to your `mkdocs.yml` directory) that contains a list of commit hashes to ignore
+when determining the revision date. The format of the file is the same as the format of
+git `blame.ignoreRevsFile`. This can be useful to ignore specific commits that apply formatting updates or other mass changes to the documents.
+
+
+=== ":octicons-file-code-16: mkdocs.yml"
+
+  ```yaml
+  plugins:
+    - git-revision-date-localized:
+        ignored_commits_file: .git-blame-ignore-revs
+  ```

src/mkdocs_git_revision_date_localized_plugin/plugin.py

@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ class GitRevisionDateLocalizedPlugin(BasePlugin):
         ("enable_creation_date", config_options.Type(bool, default=False)),
         ("enabled", config_options.Type(bool, default=True)),
         ("strict", config_options.Type(bool, default=True)),
-        ("enable_git_follow", config_options.Type(bool, default=True))
+        ("enable_git_follow", config_options.Type(bool, default=True)),
+        ("ignored_commits_file", config_options.Type(str, default=None)),
     )
 
     def on_config(self, config: config_options.Config, **kwargs) -> Dict[str, Any]:
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ def on_config(self, config: config_options.Config, **kwargs) -> Dict[str, Any]:
 
         assert self.config['type'] in ["date","datetime","iso_date","iso_datetime","timeago","custom"]
 
-        self.util = Util(config=self.config)
+        self.util = Util(config=self.config, mkdocs_dir=os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(config.get('config_file_path'))))
 
         # Save last commit timestamp for entire site
         self.last_site_revision_timestamp = self.util.get_git_commit_timestamp(

src/mkdocs_git_revision_date_localized_plugin/util.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     NoSuchPathError,
 )
 
-from typing import Dict
+from typing import Any, Dict, List
 
 logger = logging.getLogger("mkdocs.plugins")
 
@@ -27,11 +27,15 @@ class Util:
     This helps find git and calculate relevant dates.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, config={}):
+    def __init__(self, config: Dict, mkdocs_dir: str):
         """Initialize utility class."""
         self.config = config
         self.repo_cache = {}
 
+        ignore_commits_file = self.config.get("ignored_commits_file")
+        ignore_commits_filepath = os.path.join(mkdocs_dir, ignore_commits_file) if ignore_commits_file else None
+        self.ignored_commits = self.parse_git_ignore_revs(ignore_commits_filepath) if ignore_commits_file else []
+
     def _get_repo(self, path: str) -> Git:
         if not os.path.isdir(path):
             path = os.path.dirname(path)
@@ -63,6 +67,7 @@ def get_git_commit_timestamp(
             int: commit date in unix timestamp, starts with the most recent commit.
         """
         commit_timestamp = ""
+        n_ignored_commits = 0
 
         # Determine the logging level
         # Only log warnings when plugin is set to strict.
@@ -82,6 +87,7 @@ def get_git_commit_timestamp(
 
             follow_option=self.config.get('enable_git_follow')
 
+            # Ignored commits are only considered for the most recent update, not for creation
             if is_first_commit:
                 # diff_filter="A" will select the commit that created the file
                 commit_timestamp = git.log(
@@ -100,6 +106,25 @@ def get_git_commit_timestamp(
                     ignore_all_space=True, ignore_blank_lines=True
                 )
 
+                # Retrieve the history for the file in the format <hash> <timestamp>
+                # The maximum number of commits we will ever need to examine is 1 more than the number of ignored commits.
+                lines = git.log(
+                        realpath, date="unix", format="%H %at", n=len(self.ignored_commits)+1, no_show_signature=True,
+                ).split("\n")
+
+                # process the commits for the file in reverse-chronological order. Ignore any commit that is on the
+                # ignored list. If the line is empty, we've reached the end and need to use the fallback behavior.
+                for line in lines:
+                    if not line:
+                        commit_timestamp = ""
+                        break
+                    commit, commit_timestamp = line.split(" ")
+                    if not any(commit.startswith(x) for x in self.ignored_commits):
+                        break
+                    else:
+                        n_ignored_commits += 1
+
+
         except (InvalidGitRepositoryError, NoSuchPathError) as err:
             if self.config.get('fallback_to_build_date'):
                 log(
@@ -145,10 +170,13 @@ def get_git_commit_timestamp(
         # create timestamp
         if commit_timestamp == "":
             commit_timestamp = time.time()
-            log(
+            msg = (
                 "[git-revision-date-localized-plugin] '%s' has no git logs, using current timestamp"
                 % path
             )
+            if n_ignored_commits:
+                msg += f" (ignored {n_ignored_commits} commits)"
+            log(msg)
 
         return int(commit_timestamp)
 
@@ -193,3 +221,26 @@ def add_spans(date_formats: Dict[str, str]) -> Dict[str, str]:
                 % (date_type, datetime_string, date_string)
             )
         return date_formats
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def parse_git_ignore_revs(filename: str) -> List[str]:
+        """
+        Parses a file that is the same format as git's blame.ignoreRevsFile and return the list of commit hashes.
+
+        Whitespace, blanklines and comments starting with # are all ignored.
+        """
+        result = []
+
+        try:
+            with open(filename, "rt", encoding='utf-8') as f:
+                for line in f:
+                    line = line.split("#", 1)[0].strip()
+                    if not line:
+                        continue
+                    result.append(line)
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            logger.error(f"File not found: {filename}")
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(f"An error occurred while reading the file {filename}: {e}")
+
+        return result

tests/fixtures/basic_project/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+site/

tests/fixtures/basic_project/mkdocs_ignored_commits.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+site_name: test gitrevisiondatelocalized_plugin
+use_directory_urls: true
+
+plugins:
+    - search
+    - git-revision-date-localized:
+        enable_creation_date: True
+        ignored_commits_file: ignored-commits.txt

tests/test_builds.py

@@ -160,10 +160,15 @@ def setup_commit_history(testproject_path):
             repo.git.commit(message="add homepage", author=author, date="1500854705") # Mon Jul 24 2017 00:05:05 GMT+0000
 
             file_name = os.path.join(testproject_path, "docs/page_with_tag.md")
+            with open(file_name, "a") as the_file:
+                the_file.write("test\n")
+            repo.git.add("docs/page_with_tag.md")
+            repo.git.commit(message="update homepage #1", author=author, date="1525475836") # 	Fri May 04 2018 23:17:16 GMT+0000
+
             with open(file_name, "a") as the_file:
                 the_file.write("awa\n")
             repo.git.add("docs/page_with_tag.md")
-            repo.git.commit(message="update homepage", author=author, date="1642911026") # 	Sun Jan 23 2022 04:10:26 GMT+0000
+            repo.git.commit(message="update homepage #2", author=author, date="1642911026") # 	Sun Jan 23 2022 04:10:26 GMT+0000
 
         if os.path.exists("docs/page_with_renamed.md"):
             bf_file_name = os.path.join(testproject_path, "docs/page_with_renamed.md")
@@ -249,7 +254,7 @@ def validate_build(testproject_path, plugin_config: dict = {}):
     contents = page_with_tag.read_text(encoding="utf8")
     assert re.search(r"renders as\:\s[<span>|\w].+", contents)
 
-    repo = Util(config=plugin_config)
+    repo = Util(config=plugin_config, mkdocs_dir=testproject_path)
     date_formats = repo.get_date_formats_for_timestamp(
         commit_timestamp=repo.get_git_commit_timestamp(
             path=str(testproject_path / "docs/page_with_tag.md"),
@@ -373,10 +378,10 @@ def test_tags_are_replaced(tmp_path, mkdocs_file):
        pytest.skip("Not necessary to test the JS library")
 
     # Make sure count_commits() works
-    # We created 10 commits in setup_commit_history()
+    # We created 11 commits in setup_commit_history()
     with working_directory(testproject_path):
-        u = Util()
-        assert commit_count(u._get_repo("docs/page_with_tag.md")) == 10
+        u = Util(config={}, mkdocs_dir=os.getcwd())
+        assert commit_count(u._get_repo("docs/page_with_tag.md")) == 11
 
 
     # the revision date was in 'setup_commit_history' was set to 1642911026 (Sun Jan 23 2022 04:10:26 GMT+0000)
@@ -667,3 +672,37 @@ def test_mkdocs_genfiles_plugin(tmp_path):
     validate_build(
         testproject_path, plugin_config
     )
+
+
+def test_ignored_commits(tmp_path):
+    testproject_path = setup_clean_mkdocs_folder(
+        "tests/fixtures/basic_project/mkdocs_ignored_commits.yml", tmp_path
+    )
+    repo = setup_commit_history(testproject_path)
+
+    # First test that the middle commit doesn't show up by default
+    # January 23, 2022 is the date of the most recent commit
+    with open(str(testproject_path / "ignored-commits.txt"), "wt", encoding="utf-8") as fp:
+        fp.write("")
+
+    result = build_docs_setup(testproject_path)
+    assert result.exit_code == 0
+
+    page_with_tag = testproject_path / "site/page_with_tag/index.html"
+    contents = page_with_tag.read_text(encoding="utf8")
+    assert "January 23, 2022" in contents
+
+    # Now mark the most recent change to page_with_tag as ignored
+    # May 4, 2018 is the date of the second most recent commit
+    commit_hash = repo.git.log("docs/page_with_tag.md", format="%H", n=1)
+
+    with open(str(testproject_path / "ignored-commits.txt"), "wt", encoding="utf-8") as fp:
+        fp.write(commit_hash)
+
+    # should not raise warning
+    result = build_docs_setup(testproject_path)
+    assert result.exit_code == 0
+
+    page_with_tag = testproject_path / "site/page_with_tag/index.html"
+    contents = page_with_tag.read_text(encoding="utf8")
+    assert "May 4, 2018" in contents

tests/test_parse_git_ignore_revs.py

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+from mkdocs_git_revision_date_localized_plugin.util import Util
+import pytest
+import tempfile
+import os
+
+TEST_PARAMS = [
+    ("abc123\n", ["abc123"]),
+    ("abc123 # comments are ignored\n", ["abc123"]),
+    ("\n\n\n\n\nabc123\n\n\n\n\n", ["abc123"]),
+]
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("test_input,expected", TEST_PARAMS)
+def test_parse_git_ignore_revs(test_input, expected):
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w', encoding='utf-8', delete=False) as fp:
+        fp.write(test_input)
+        temp_file_name = fp.name
+    try:
+        assert Util.parse_git_ignore_revs(temp_file_name) == expected
+    finally:
+        os.remove(temp_file_name)