Comment by eliaspro

I would say it's considered a bad idea, since git comes from an OpenSource world and its implied understanding, where you don't depend on a specific binary release to reproduce your results, but your results can always be reproduced purely from source - binaries are just considered a product of "the plaintext truth recorded in your repository".

Sure, there are nuances to it as the need for ReproducibleBuilds [1] project demonstrated or people proving this concept of "bootstrapped reproducibility" to the extremes like Guix' full-source bootstrap [2], but I believe the fundamental understanding is the same.

[1] https://reproducible-builds.org/

[2] https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-...