MacPorts installation processes

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On 11 Nov 2017, at 10:40, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> "2.4.99" means some point along the way of developing 2.5.x, but not any particular point; you can update your git clone and rebuild to get a newer "2.4.99".

Bear with me. If I understood correctly, if I checkout a hypothetical 2.4.3 commit I get v2.4.3, but if I checkout the commit right after that one I should get v2.4.99 and as such a version almost equivalent to 2.4.3?