[GNC-dev] Help with Git repos and versioning

[Kevin Buckley]

I have a directory, from within which I do the occassional git pull
againstt the GnuCash GitHub repo.

I just did one, and now see the following

$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git (push)

$ git status -s -b
## stable...origin/stable

$ git describe --abbrev=1
5.0-71-gf4f48

All looks good, but then I started looking around.

The README I have starts with

############################################################
          GnuCash README file.

The current stable series is GnuCash 4.x.
------------------------------------------------------------

should I have one that says 5.x ?


I also downloaded a 5.0 source tarball, and saw that the README is the
same in there, but also saw in the Changelog

2023-03-25 John Ralls

        * Release GnuCash 5.0 (HEAD -> master, tag: 5.0)

2023-03-25 John Ralls

        * Merge branch 'maint'


but, if I chechout the maint branch in my local directory, I see

$ git checkout maint
$ git describe --abbrev=1
4.13-1-g52ded

amd I am aware that's there's been a 4.14, as well as the 5.0

FWIW, the latest commit I can see in my maint branch is

commit 52deda868ff042a2815cc6b91464a1d3415a447b (HEAD -> maint,
origin/maint, origin/HEAD)
Author: Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Dec 18 11:39:51 2022 +0800

and then when I went looking at

https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash

I couldn't see the "maint" branch.

Have I lost a reference somehwere ?

Kevin