You can solve that issue not at the source/VCS level but with artifact management, properly logging, storing and documenting the things that were built from tha

You can solve that issue not at the source/VCS level but with artifact management, properly logging, storing and documenting the things that were built from that source. In some places that's tightly integrated with VCS in a single pipeline, in others the source and built artifacts are managed quite separately, especially if you're packaging many different builds for different customers.