Thats a great point. As a Go developer I always try to make sure that there's a linux and binary for my small projects released on github. I'm surprised more Go devs don't do this. The toolchain makes it very easy to update releases. You can also use ldflags to set the current git revision and branch into the project.

Here's an example release.sh I have in most of my projects https://github.com/micromdm/scep/blob/master/cmd/scepclient/...