Timestamp still shows in man documentation

[speedingdaemon]

I thought that this issue was resolved with #142
But even after specifying in my root cmd:
DisableAutoGenTag: true,

I see this text in my man documentation:
Auto generated by spf13/cobra on 6-Sep-2018

markdown and ReST documentation don't have this text.
Am I doing something wrong?

Here is my code:
var rootCmd = &cobra.Command{
Use: "hello",
Short: "test",
Long: "my test",
DisableAutoGenTag: true,
}

func genManDocs() {
header := &doc.GenManHeader{
Title: "MINE",
Section: "3",
}
err := doc.GenManTree(rootCmd, header, "./")

    if err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
    }

}

[Skarlso]

Yep, second that. It's still in there.

[Simran-B]

I want to add that it's also showing in the Markdown documentation, so likely a general issue of DisableAutoGenTag not working properly (not passed on correctly?)

[kamalgrover]

Guys, Is there a workarround for the same ?

[Skarlso]

Not that I know off, sorry. :/

[kamalgrover]

I used the "Source" member to overcome this.
Here is the code snippet.

func main() {

	header := &doc.GenManHeader{
		Title:   "shorthand",
		Section: "1",
		Manual:  "My Product Manual",
		Source: "Copyright (C) 2020 All Rights Reserved.",

	}
	//Disables the autogenerated comment at the end of the man page.
	cmd.RootCmd.DisableAutoGenTag = true
	err := doc.GenManTree(cmd.RootCmd, header, "doc/")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

[jpmcb]

@jharshman I did some investigation on this and seems that cmd.DisableAutoGenTag will only skip placing the auto gen tag in the body while the header "source" will get auto populated with the auto gen tag if nothing is specified.

I was able to work around this by specifying something other than an empty string:

header := &doc.GenManHeader{
	Title: "someTitle",
	Section: "1",
	Source: " ",
}

Would we expect setting cmd.DisableAutoGenTag = true to disable the string "Auto generated by spf13/cobra" everywhere when docs are generated? If so, I'd recommend we extend this to disable all auto generated tags when the bool is set to true. I can work on this as well if that's the direction we want to go.

[github-actions]

This issue is being marked as stale due to a long period of inactivity

[jpmcb]

@jharshman this can be closed as #1104 addressed this