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The versioned, release tarballs contain no SCM information. They are intended for use with whatever SCM you select in your custom environment. The versioned released are also available within the NuttX GIT repository clones or forks. Older release used tags to idenfify identify releases. For example, the tag nuttx-8.2 would identify the nuttx-8.2 release and a versioned branch could be created with the git command:
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