@darius I see the git history as something that might not always be available. For example, when generating a classic tarball with automake's make dist, the .git directory is usually stripped off

I run Gentoo on my personal machines. I more than once had to investigate why a package suddenly broke compilation on an update (especially when I have set an uncommon set of USE flags). I usually have to dive into the code there and that's usually from a release tarball without git repo