I tried to use mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin together with [mkdocs-gen-files] to auto-generate references from Python doc strings. During the build, I encountered the following error message:

[git-revision-date-localized-plugin] Unable to find a git directory and/or git is not installed. To ignore this error, set option 'fallback_to_build_date: true',

followed by a git.exc.InvalidGitRepositoryError.

The fundamental problem is that mkdocs-gen-files stores its output in temporary files outside the project's repository. Hence, git-revision-date-localized cannot find a repository and produces the error.

On the other hand, it is possible to silence the error by setting fallback_to_build_date: true in mkdocs.yaml, such that the auto-generated pages are marked with the build date. This, however, turns the errors for each file into warnings, and thus it is impossible to use mkdocs in --strict mode.

Also, the exclude option does not work in this case since the names of the temporary files are unknown before build time.

I currently don't have a proper solution since it is obviously not straightforward to map auto-generated temporary files to the corresponding code files.