[bug]: Git history is incorrect on Vercel builds due to shallow clone

[joostdecock]

What seems to be the problem? 🤔

The Author info on documentation pages is incorrect in production.
That's because it's based on the git commit log, which we parse to see who has worked on a given page/file.

However, Vercel does a shallow clone when building the site, and so this info is not available when running a build on Vercel.

There's a few things we can try to side-step the problem:

• Get Vercel to do a full clone. Not sure this is even possible, or what the impact would be on build times
• Build outside of Vercel (like in GitHub actions for example) and push to Vercel to publish (more stuff to maintain)
• Generate this list of updates periodically (in a GitHub action perhaps) either push it to our backend or make it available elsewhere so we can pull it in during the build step

The latter option has the benefit that it will fix the problem without slowing down the build (actually, it will make it faster).
We could have a pipeline that only runs when merging to the develop branch for this.

Design / Plugin / Package 🧐

No response

Additional context

Example of incorrect data: https://freesewing.org/docs/designs/bibi/notes
(was written by @HaasJona but says @joostdecock becuase that's the fallback default it seems).