[Docs] Add revision date to rendered docs (#21752)

Signed-off-by: Harry Mellor <19981378+hmellor@users.noreply.github.com>

.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

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"]

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