diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2f666e2..8e62a02 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,109 @@
 *.orig
 *.DS_Store
 dist/
+*.swp
+*.pyc
+*.zip
+env
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+tests/
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+env/
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+
+# PyInstaller
+#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+.cache
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+.hypothesis/
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+# Django stuff:
+*.log
+local_settings.py
+
+# Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+# Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+# PyBuilder
+target/
+
+# Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+
+# pyenv
+.python-version
+
+# celery beat schedule file
+celerybeat-schedule
+
+# SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+# dotenv
+.env
+
+# virtualenv
+.venv
+venv/
+ENV/
+
+# Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+# mypy
+.mypy_cache/
diff --git a/semver/__init__.py b/semver/__init__.py
index 91f209b..bb744b0 100644
--- a/semver/__init__.py
+++ b/semver/__init__.py
@@ -18,20 +18,17 @@ class SemVer(object):
         self.main_branch = None
         self.version_type = None
 
-        self.main_branches = ['develop', 'env-test', 'env-stage', 'env-prod']
-        self.major_branches = []
-        self.minor_branches = ['feature', 'RightBrain-Networks/feature']
-        self.patch_branches = ['hotfix', 'bugfix']
+        self.main_branches = self._setting_to_array('main_branches')
+        self.major_branches = self._setting_to_array('major_branches')
+        self.minor_branches = self._setting_to_array('minor_branches')
+        self.patch_branches = self._setting_to_array('patch_branches')
 
-    #def _setting_to_array(self, setting):
-     #   config = ConfigParser()
-     #   config.read('./.bumpversion.cfg')
-     #   value = config.get('semver', setting)
-     #   print(str(value))
-        
-        #return value.split(',')
+    def _setting_to_array(self, setting):
+        config = ConfigParser()
+        config.read('./.bumpversion.cfg')
+        value = config.get('semver', setting)
         # filter() removes empty string which is what we get if setting is blank
-        #return [v.strip() for v in value.split(',')]
+        return list(filter(bool, [v.strip() for v in value.split(',')]))
 
     # based on commit message see what branches are involved in the merge
     
@@ -62,6 +59,7 @@ class SemVer(object):
 
     # based on branches involved see what type of versioning should be done
     def get_version_type(self):
+        print("Merged branch is "+self.merged_branch)
         for prefix in self.major_branches:
             if self.merged_branch.startswith(prefix + '/'):
                 self.version_type = 'major'
@@ -113,7 +111,6 @@ class SemVer(object):
     # 3) see what type of versioning we should do
     # 4) version the repo
     def run(self):
-        print(self.main_branches)
         if not self.get_branches():
             raise Exception('No merge found')
         if self.main_branch not in self.main_branches:
diff --git a/semver/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc b/semver/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ca636a..0000000
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