Max Horn runs an important web site which may be unknown to most TeXShop users. The site is
https://github.com/TeXShop/TeXShop and contains
the source code for most versions of TeXShop since the program began. While the Horn site was under construction,
I sent him old sources obtained by turned on computers that had last run twenty years ago; they started right up! That is how I found the original sources for the earliest TeXShop, which are linked from the the main TeXShop page,
https://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/texshop.html.
I am ashamed to admit that git remains a mystery to me. So Horn has access to valuable information I know nothing about. Here's an example. Horn recently reported that the 5.18 sources suddenly contained a complete copy of the final program. That was 90 megs of useless information. Sure enough, a copy had accidentally been saved in the wrong spot.
This problem was immediately fixed on the web, but I'm gradually digesting a list from Horn of other elements in the current sources that are probably no longer relevant.