Generates a simple revision history table with content pulled from git tags.

quarto add smutch/quarto-rev-history

This will install the extension under the _extensions subdirectory. If you're using version control, you will want to check in this directory.

To tag a version of the document/project that you wish to include in the revision table, simply ensure that your changes are commited and add a git tag.

git tag v0.0.1-alpha

The tag name as well as the date, author and one-line description of the corresponding git commit will be used to populate the table.

Here is the source code for a minimal example: example.qmd.