Differnce- Model Branch and XML

[Tehila1]

What is the difference between import of EAB file (model branch) and import an XML file and configuring to version control?

Thanks.

[qwerty]

I'd say it's the difference between apples and eggs. An EAB is a symbolic file (just open it with a text editor). An XMI import is some package in your repository which you replace by the contents of an XMI-formatted model.

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[Eve]

There's a bit more of a relationship than that.

An EAB file specifies what your top level packages are, and uses XMI to import that package (and its children etc.) In a model (or version control repository) with hundreds of packages an EAB file makes it much easier to know how to recreate the model in a new repository.