[Release] Fix version tag and commit not getting embedded correctly #4739
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The commit and version keep getting set to UNKNOWN in version.go, ruining our app version metric. There seems to be a bug where x_defs does not consistently embed the data during releases.
In this commit we try another approach where we use a genrule that explicitly sets stamp = 1 and directly reads from bazel-out/stable-status.txt (described here: bazelbuild/bazel#4942 (comment))
There's some additional context at the bottom of this thread: https://buildbuddy-corp.slack.com/archives/C01D5GHRJ59/p1694026279817119