> > 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. > > OG.
seems to be idealist vs. practical here...
unfortunately it doesn't surprise me given where the idea is coming from, pretty much mirrors my experiences.