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I'm trying out Prefect. Two questions:

• I added and registered a flow with a local server. It has caught my attention that when I re-add the exact same flow, a new 'version' is created. What is the best practice for adding a flow? Am I supposed to add it just once and again for updates? Or always before creating a new flor run?
• What is the typical separation of concerns? Should I just call `create_flow_run`  in the client, or should the client be doing anything else?

Yeah this is a known pain point of the current setup that versions are practically not really useful because you can’t “roll back” a version. So in Orion (Prefect 2.0), versions can be user supplied

So for current Core, I would say the rule of thumb is any change requires a re-registration and will bump up the version

If you have a flow of flows, you can use the `create_flow_run` task to trigger a subflow

If you need to trigger a Flow from somewhere else like lambda, `client.create_flow_run` is good for that.

If you can just add a schedule, then you don’t need this