Comment by benatkin
3 years ago
It's only a totally valid approach if you're hostile to it. It's following the letter of the law but not the spirit of it.
3 years ago
It's only a totally valid approach if you're hostile to it. It's following the letter of the law but not the spirit of it.
For certain use-cases, this approach is actually _more_ convenient, i.e. supporting old platforms. If I'm trying to build a modern piece of software on Tiger, but it turns out I need to first back-port cctools from Leopard, they've made that task extremely convenient for me.
git checkout tag ## use this next time
It is unlikely that a given open source project would organize their tags along the lines of "Tiger 10.4.11"