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LGTM, but let's wait for more opinions. Since this does concern Guix as a whole I don't want to be the sole dictator here. > > >   In the particular case of minetest, we > > have an external map of "tags" to commits that can be queried, but > > for > > most repos I fear the tags would simply be lost to time. > > Here "tags" = releases on content.minetest.net, and not Git tags? Yep, "tags" = contentdb releases, I forgot the terminology here :) > > > > That's a general question that has not reached a conclusion yet.  > > IIRC the goal was to make tags more robust by replacing them with > > git-describe like tags.  This would also make it easier to port > > between revisioned commit and tagged one, since one would have to > > let-bind commit either way. > > FWIW, the git updater in (guix upstream) might need to be modified to > support the "git describe" style in commit fields, and a linter > to verify that the tag+number corresponds to the commit (to > avoid some ‘tricking peer review’ issues), but otherwise this > seems rather nice to me.  I didn't investigate closely though. Yeah, in my opinion we'd also want a (git-tag VERSION COMMIT) procedure to produce it, which is definitely c-u material. And obviously long hashes would be required. Cheers