Checking out Git tags allows you to examine specific release versions and tagged commits, essential for debugging production issues and understanding release history. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I’ve used tag checkouts extensively for release management and debugging version-specific issues across multiple CoreUI repositories. From my 25 years of experience in software development and version control, the most reliable approach is to use git checkout with the tag name. This method provides safe access to tagged release states for testing and analysis.