{"id":546782,"date":"2019-06-28T03:30:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=546782"},"modified":"2019-08-01T04:45:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:45:45","slug":"to-branch-or-not-to-branch","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-enterprise\/data-management\/to-branch-or-not-to-branch","title":{"rendered":"To Branch or Not to Branch"},"author":9632,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851],"tags":[42301,25381,194132,137642],"industry":[],"product":[36571,36561],"class_list":["post-546782","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","tag-arcgis-enterprise","tag-geodatabase","tag-service-based-versioning","tag-versioning","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"An introduction to branch versioning. Is it right for you?","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

\u2026that is the question which often comes up when users first hear about branch versioning<\/a>. \u00a0This is followed by more questions\u00a0<\/span><\/span>like<\/span><\/span>: “What exactly is it? Why should I use it? How will it fit into my established workflows?”<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a new user of branch versioning myself, I’ve recently spent a lot of time exploring its functionality and advantages. Surprisingly, it is quite simple and easy to implement! This new functionality within ArcGIS Pro opens up a whole new world of capabilities for data sharing, multiuser editing, and data management. Talking about these key points will help introduce the fundamentals around the subject of branch versioning, and showcase some of the exciting new potential it brings!<\/p>\n

My hope is that I can offer a fresh perspective to help your users or organization understand branch versioning better. From there, you can decide on how to best implement it for your organization and which “type” of versioning is the best fit for you.<\/p>\n

Let’s get started!<\/p>\n

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What is branch versioning?<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

If you’ve worked with versioning in the past, you’ve already used what we now call “Traditional” versioning. However, if you’re not already familiar with it, I’d recommend learning about it here:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"

Link: Learn about versioning<\/span><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To sum versioning up, here are the basics of why it’s important:<\/p>\n