Re: [PATCH] contrib/persistent-https: update ldflags syntax for Go 1.7+

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Parker Moore [off-list ref] wrote:

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The label does not even identify the version of the source in any way, so I am not sure how people are depending on that feature anyway ;-)

Would it be a better solution simply to remove this build flag?
Alternatively, if Git wished to support Go v1.5 and below, I would be
more than happy to send a patch with a dynamic lookup in the Makefile
based on the output of `go version`. I would be more than happy to
submit either patch.

I think we could remove that BUILD_LABEL entirely. Colby liked having
a marker so he knows what "version" a user is running, but without any
correlation to source here it just isn't that useful.