From 1395dd9c280b3d02f95a95748de1db26514b217e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harry Mellor <19981378+hmellor@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:12:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [Docs] Add revision date to rendered docs (#21752)

Signed-off-by: Harry Mellor <19981378+hmellor@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .readthedocs.yaml     | 3 +++
 mkdocs.yaml           | 5 +++++
 requirements/docs.txt | 1 +
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
index 98c3be25f7..4329750090 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ build:
   os: ubuntu-22.04
   tools:
     python: "3.12"
+  jobs:
+    post_checkout:
+      - git fetch --unshallow || true
 
 mkdocs:
   configuration: mkdocs.yaml
diff --git a/mkdocs.yaml b/mkdocs.yaml
index 8f731a2c1f..78f1c5b77c 100644
--- a/mkdocs.yaml
+++ b/mkdocs.yaml
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ plugins:
   - autorefs
   - awesome-nav
   - glightbox
+  - git-revision-date-localized:
+      # exclude autogenerated files
+      exclude:
+        - argparse/*
+        - examples/*
   # For API reference generation
   - api-autonav:
       modules: ["vllm"]
diff --git a/requirements/docs.txt b/requirements/docs.txt
index 950906b2ff..9e56c9573b 100644
--- a/requirements/docs.txt
+++ b/requirements/docs.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ mkdocstrings-python
 mkdocs-gen-files
 mkdocs-awesome-nav
 mkdocs-glightbox
+mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin
 python-markdown-math
 regex
 ruff