Divergence of unstable and master branches

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 26, 2017, at 8:58 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> 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.

It's part of the release procedure. 

Regards,
John Ralls