The previous approach baked git rev-parse --short HEAD into the image
at Docker build time, but Dockhand's build context doesn't reliably
have .git available, so it silently fell back to "unknown" in
production even though the build itself succeeded. Replace it with a
plain VERSION file committed to the repo (a timestamp + short
description, updated by hand alongside each commit) that ships via the
same COPY . . as everything else - no git access needed inside the
build at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
