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I think Flare stopped adding gitignore to the .gitignore file - possibly in Flare 2020r3. We're now having a terrible time sharing projects because although all the .gitignore files have the same text in them, they are never in synch with the repo and have to be merged. Now I have to get all the wri...

We never did find out what caused this weird behavior, but it resolved itself when IT had to do some unrelated work on the laptop. I'm guessing something went wrong in an install somewhere.

Tried a long wait, and it didn't come through. I have more information, though - the process does time out with a quick flash of a message as the window closes. Time frame seems reasonable - 10-20 minutes. Most puzzling attribute is why the source control linkage works for existing bound projects (p...

New laptop with Flare 2020, Git 2.22.0, Atlassian Bitbucket for remote repos, using HTTPS for source control but also tested with SSH Can clone and update other repos using SourceTree (so the Git/Bitbucket SSH is configured correctly). Can sync an existing local Flare project repo with Bitbucket thr...

Several writers on our team (including me) have had the same problem, starting some time after October 1, 2020. After we build a Flare help project, we try to display the output in the Chrome browser from our local drives. The display fails with one of two error messages: one is a 404 error, the oth...