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How to "checkout a tag" in Git:

Purists will whine that you can't technically checkout a tag in Git; instead, you checkout a branch at a start point, which may be a tag.

Assuming the desired tag is v1.0, you can tell Git to create a new branch, also named v1.0, at the point in Git history where the tag is v1.0:

project (master)$ git checkout tags/v1.0 -b v1.0
project (v1.0)$
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