On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 17:17:28 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> I agree that it is good to get rid of this. However, the reason it has stuck > around for so long is, eh, that it has been around for so long, so it is a > bit unclear what or who could be relying on this. The example I know is to get a signal that test infrastructures actually picked up my ad-hoc binary build, not some other build from somewhere else. Maybe we should revisit the `git describe` hash idea we kicked along for a while now: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8274980?focusedId=14452017 -- which would cover that case too. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18136#issuecomment-1981482991
