misc/far2l: explain why we stick to g${DATE} as PORTVERSION for now.

freebsd · May 17, 2021 · c9a10ef · c9a10ef
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 # Created by: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
 
 PORTNAME=	far2l
+# Upstream tags (pre-)releases very rarely and irregularly, so keep using
+# the g${DATE} format even for tagged releases to avoid bumping PORTEPOCH
+# in case we'd have to use raw commit hashes again in the future.
 PORTVERSION=	g20210426
 CATEGORIES=	misc