The date in the .TH line of jq.1.prebuilt changed whenever the manual was
regenerated in a new month, causing merge conflicts between pull requests
that touch the manual, and it did not reflect the release date anyway.
Generate the committed man page without a date.
Stamp the date into jq.1 at build time instead, taking it from the current
commit, or from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH where that is set, so that release
tarballs and distribution builds still carry one and the behaviour added
in #3514 is kept. Write it in UTC and in ISO 8601 rather than the previous
"%B %Y", for which mandoc reports "cannot parse date, using it verbatim".
Fixes issue with confusion about features that has not been
released yet.
Move deveopment manual.yml to dev/manual.yml
Symlink manual.yml to v1.7/manual.yml
Refactor to share history header with links to other manual versions.
Change man.test and man page generation to use dev/manual.yml
Related to #3078#3127
The markdown python changed its API for markdown extensions.
Bumping the markdown package version in previous commits broke
docs/build_manpage.py since it was using registering an extension with
the old API.
itchyny