Mark Jason Dominus: Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo

Planet Haskell · Oct 6, 2026

While I was still at ZipRecruiter, our Git monorepo was developing an annoying problem: it had too many refs. Whenever there was a deployment of any of the applications in the repo, to staging or to production, the deployment tool would create a tag object with a name like this: refs/release/stg.www.our-app-2019-09-06T114410.954-0700-treesha-179dab6fd11bee5195f0f8e31cea3edfb86ae23b The tag contained the name of the target tier of the deployment (stg here, for “staging”), the app name and class of hosts on which it ran, www.our-app in this case, the date and time, and the hash of the tree that…