> I think the data was a useful human digestible metric, which is one of the issues I > have with GIT in general; without access to the repository it's basically just a > random bunch of numbers and letters which you can't mentally store as anything. > > Don't see a problem with listing the git revision, but the date should still be there > IMHO.
The presence of the date kills the possibility of reproducible builds, which is why the debian guys asked if it was possible to do something about it.