Merge pull request #667 from weakish/git-created-date

fallback to git last modified upon empty git created date

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Go to the `v1` branch to see the changelog of Lume 1.
 ### Added
 - Basic auth middleware: Added `errorMessage` option.
 ### Fixed
+- When using special value `git created` for `date` variable, it will fall back to `git modified` first, then filesystem last modified date.
 - Updated dependencies: `linkedom`, `sass`, `satori`, `terser`, `liquidjs`, `tailwind`, `date-fns`, `std`, `esbuild`, `preact`, `lightningcss`, `postcss`, `remark-rehype`, `react` types, `unocss`.
 
 ## [2.3.2] - 2024-09-10

core/utils/page_date.ts

@@ -24,7 +24,12 @@ export function getPageDate(page: Page): Date {
         case "git last modified":
           return getGitDate("modified", entry.src) || info.mtime || new Date();
         case "git created":
-          return getGitDate("created", entry.src) || info.birthtime ||
+          // getGitDate("created", ...) uses `git log --diff-filter=A`
+          // which returns nothing for files where the latest commit had a merge conflict.
+          // Therefore we fallback to last modified time from git history,
+          // which is more reliable than file system creation time under most CI environments.
+          return getGitDate("created", entry.src) ||
+            getGitDate("modified", entry.src) || info.birthtime ||
             new Date();
       }
     }