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Convert Branch to Main Branch

If you want to break the relationship between a branch and its original version, use the Convert to Main Branch option. This removes the branching and turns your branched publication/topic into a regular unbranched publication/topic.

Example 1. ACME 1000 and ACME 1000X

Let's say you create some documentation for a product called "Acme 1000". A special version of the product, called "Acme 1000X", is scheduled for release so you create a branch that you can use to work on its documentation.

Some way into the project, it is decided that the "Acme 1000X" was going to become a completely different product called "Acme SmartHub". At this point, you decide that the documentation needs to be separate and so you want to break the "branch relationship" between the branch and the original version. To do that, you use Convert to Main Branch.


  1. Select the branched publication or topic in the Content Manager.

    Note

    You can select multiple branched topics at once. Press and hold Alt (Windows) or Cmd ⌘ (Mac) and then select each topic. Alternatively, use Shift key and select the first and last topics in a range of topics.

    Close up of topics in the Content Manager. A pink highlight box surrounds three branched topics. Another pink highlight box surrounds the dotted menu to the right of one of the topics.

  2. Select the dotted menu ( ... ) to the right of one of the selected publications or topics.

  3. Select Branching and choose Convert to Main Branch.

    Topic's options menu is selected, Branching option is selected followed by Convert to Main Branch.

    Paligo removes the connection between the branched content and the original version of the content. Your selected content is now separate and cannot be merged back into the original version.