Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> +
>> +It is a good idea to strip commit identifiers to, say, 7 digits so that
>> +they do not become aesthetically disturbing (assuming aesthetics have a
>> +role to play here.)  It is best to use the full commit identifiers in
>> +@code{origin}s, though, to avoid ambiguities.
>> +
>
> I would probably find this a little confusing if I didn’t already know
> what you meant.  Where should commit identifiers be stripped?  Are there
> more places than just the ‘version’ field?  Could we name the ‘version’
> field as an example?
>
> Is it only aesthetics or also a matter of keeping shebangs shorter (in
> case the output provides an interpreter that could end up in a shebang
> line).  The version is usually part of the output name, so maybe it
> would make sense to mention the ‘version’ field explicitly.

You’re right on both points.

How about this variant?