The general purpose gitlab-runner nicely prints this when kicking a job:
Running with gitlab-runner 15.7.2 (0e7679e6)
on here-goes-the-description gPGG42Bx
This is extremely useful to figure out where things went wrong in case of issues or even to ensure a new version got actually picked up when deploying an update.
Can lava-gitlab-runner be taught to do something similar? :)