shuding/nextra

Timestamping fails for files in a git submodule

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#4,781 opened on Sep 3, 2025

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Description

I am trying to use Nextra for a project where the content (.md files) lives inside a git submodule. When I build I get a lot (~1.5k) of the following warning.

warn [nextra] Failed to get the last modified timestamp from Git for the file [...]

I would be fine just disabling timestamps in my project (for the time being) but I can't work out how to do that either.

To Reproduce Try building https://github.com/jajaperson/next-notes/tree/a5f5970a60959919b65539e42ebcfecbeb9153a9

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Research direction
Investigate how the git timestamp retrieval works in Nextra and determine if it handles submodules; possibly skip timestamping for submodule files or adjust the git command to work with submodule paths.
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typescriptreactnextjs
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