Is there a way to suppress the generator meta tag?

[sergeybykov]

Title

Every update of DocFx tooling causes changes in every single generated html file because of the meta name="generator" content="docfx 2.10.2.0 tag being updated. Is there a way to suppress this tag, so that rebuilding docs with a new version of DocFx wouldn't make changes to every single generated html file?

Functional impact

When committing docs generated with a new version of DocFx we have to either manually excluded files with no meaningful changes (error prone) or include all files, which adds too much noise to the change history.

Minimal repro steps

Build docs with DocFx 2.10.1.0.
Change a single line in the source file.
Rebuild docs with DocFx 2.10.2.0
See every single generated html file changed.

Expected result

A flag of config option to suppress insertion of meta name="generator" content="docfx x.y.z.a` tag to generated html files.

Actual result

Generator tag with a DocFx version in every single html file.

[superyyrrzz]

Hi @sergeybykov , you can overwrite it in docfx.json's global metadata like "globalMetadata": {"_docfxVersion": "x.y.z.a"}. But as affected by a bug, this option can only take effect from DocFX's next release v2.12