Hi and happy Git days! :)
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > It expands to the hash of the blob of that file; and from that, you can > identify which commits the blob exists in. $ git ls-tree HEAD README 100644 blob 08ae16956b8944da2fef75fee892dcba457cf4f0 README $ $ (stat --printf='blob %s\0' README; cat README) | sha1sum 08ae16956b8944da2fef75fee892dcba457cf4f0 - $ This is so simple to generate that it doesn't really need a placeholder in every ebuild in the repository. > The primary use case of it is to allow users to easily see what > version of a given ebuild they are using. I guess the merits of this use case are up for discussion also outside of infra? I think a single tree-wide identifier (let's it a snapshot identifier?) would be far more useful. Kind regards //Peter
