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+# source-fgds
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+This repo contains two branches.
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+* "master" contains the original FGDs from before Mapbase's changes.
+* "mapbase" contains Mapbase's changes to the original FGDs.
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+This allows readers to see what Mapbase changed in the FGDs and makes it easier to merge a mod's own modified FGDs with Mapbase's FGDs, as they could create a new branch from "master" and merge from the "mapbase" branch.
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+The original FGD files were created by Valve for the Source SDK.