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Hi there Morgan, love to hear about your workflow for Git. I started with Git at another company where they were determined to bind and stay bound to Git through Flare despite all issues. I want to use Git and I don't want to be bound and I was hoping you could give me some tips on workflows. Thank...

If you use standard Git tools, the question of how you group one or more projects into a repository is more how you need to branch. The approach that worked best for me and my teams was to create repos based on how product was released and doc outputs published. Think about how you need to build an...

My team follows GitHub flow (you can find a good article about it here: http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html ). We don't work directly in the Master branch. We want Master to always be safe to publish from, so anything in Master is complete and publication-ready. This means that we can...

What type of transport protocols are set up on that server? Do you have read/write access to the repo? Flare is telling you that it cannot locate that Git repo or the project file... I'm not sure which since Flare's error message isn't clear (the error message makes it seem like it's looking for a f...

You can't use the full power of Git from Flare. Most (if not all) graphical user interfaces designed just for Git don't expose all of the commands and uses of Git, so I definitely don't expect Flare to encompass more than the Git-specific tools! I highly recommend using source control outside of Fla...

I'm not sure how to help with the firewall issue and I don't know where the network settings are stored for a Flare project bound to Git, but... Have you resetting to the last commit before you set up the proxy server? That should undo the setting you cannot delete, unless this setting isn't being t...

My Git repositories contain 3 Flare projects with no issues. However, I don't use Flare's Git integration.

Also, to work with my SMEs, I have to use some programs that are OSX-only, so I now have to juggle two computers. Flare is the only reason I have to use a Windows machine.

I'm dying for this feature... at a minimum I need to compile a project on a Unix machine. At my company, R&D is entirely Mac/Linux, except for the technical writers using Flare! As we more closely align with the R&D's best practices, workflow, and tools, this limitation of Flare has caused s...

Thanks, David! That worked perfectly!

I would like to know this as well. I think <![CDATA[ ]]> is causing some errors in our topics...

@Bunnycat did you ever find a solution? Could you share the solution the other teams in your org used? I'm trying to add a second navbar as well... I'm not afraid of hand coding it, but I'm not sure where to place it in the master pages so that it appears above Flare's navbar. And if I don't place i...

What work had you done? What files did you work on? Did you modify the skin or target?