Agreed. It's like baking a cake and putting a best by date on it but having no idea if the ingredients you used we're expired or even rotten. Git solves this p

Agreed. It's like baking a cake and putting a best by date on it but having no idea if the ingredients you used we're expired or even rotten. Git solves this problem by tracking all of the ingredients for you with plenty of metadata to ensure you're never baking a bad cake. Couple it with a changelog and tagging and you'll worry a lot less about bad or expired cakes. When I see people depend on things like dates or build id's it's typically my first indication that something is wrong in the cake making process.