Jared Dillard

No worries! I'd be happy if this functionality was a core part of Sphinx! Have you seen https://github.com/mgeier/sphinx-last-updated-by-git? I'm wondering if that would be a better implementation, not to mention...

You can ignore the above, @theletterf was pointed to the cause of his issue: https://github.com/mgeier/sphinx-last-updated-by-git/issues/76

Ah crap, I thought I responded to this. Thanks for the pointer, I'll look at implementing that here. Nice work on `sphinx-last-updated-by-git`!

I had the same issue on `3.9.19` and then tested on `3.10.13` and it caught changes, so seems to be a 3.9 issue.

Thanks! > The Option can either be set to True (current date is used) or a string with the desired lastmod date. I'm not the biggest fan of having a...

Hrm, I'm kind of torn on this implementation. I looked up "best practices" for `lastmod` and found some information on how it should be used: > Note that the date...

>But what if a set of documents isn't in a Git repository? Then using git to get modification date wouldn't be workable. In theory, it should be very easy to...

This also seem related to https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/10219, in that a default type/subtype of `type='ext', subtype=ext.name` for extensions (if none is provided) seems like it would solve that issue.

Unfortunately not at this time, I can look at adding regex support to `sitemap_excludes`. As a workaround until then, you might be able to dynamically generate the list of files...

I think regex has the potential to make configuration more complicated (a lot of people struggle with the syntax) and not sure the added control it gives is worth it...