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Hm can you give an example of that? Are they wondering if the features they care about are deployed?

The linear version numbers could have an advantage in that regard. If you want to know if CL 12345 is deployed, and you know the current deployment is running as of CL 12350, then it should be in there. Conversely if it's less than that number, it's definitely not in there.

git hashes also have good properties but I'm wondering how non-technical employees use them. Do they know how to dig through the git history?