Divergence of unstable and master branches

[Geert Janssens]

Op donderdag 26 oktober 2017 16:08:37 CEST schreef John Ralls:
> > On Oct 26, 2017, at 5:13 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > John,
> > 
> > Right after tagging 2.7.0a, you have merged unstable into master. This
> > merge is a full merge instead of a fast forward although I don't see any
> > commit unique to master since the last merge. Did you deliberately choose
> > to diverge master from unstable ?
> 
> Geert,
> 
> I deliberately did a no-ff merge, yes. That in itself doesn’t diverge
> anything, but it does make a record that the merge happened.
> 
> As for “deliberately diverged”, that’s the whole point of having three
> branches. For example it allows us to merge
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/222
> <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/222> sooner than we’d otherwise be
> able to.

Indeed. I would have done it though only when the need arose. PR 222 isn't 
merged yet. But it's fine like this as well.

Regards,

Geert