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+#Yellow-Bike-Database
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+**Development Branch of Yellow Bike Project Hours and Transaction Database**
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+The basic objective here since Yellow Bike Project does not host their own version control repository is to keep Main pristine, and do development work here, on the assumption that they may want to commit new changes.  This branch is being used by [YBDB](https://github.com/fspc/ybdb), the BikeBike Docker image.