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1. Enforces white space rules to avoid gratuitous differences from creeping into a file
2. Enforced Enforces consistency in the formatting of changeset comments so you can find the JBS bug ID associated with the change.
3. Is a necessary step Prerequisite to enabling hgupdater, which will automate the now-manual process of resolving a bug as fixed, creating backports, and adding the changeset URL in the comments of the JBS bug.

The jcheck work is far enough along that it is ready for use by OpenJFX Committers to check their changesets before they push to make sure that common mistakes in formatting commit messages are caught. This can be done now, prior to us actually enabling jcheck on the server, by using a version of jcheck that includes changes has been modified to recognize FX build tags. Until it this is enabled on the server, this the use of jcheck is a manual process -- process – you have to remember to run 'hg jcheck' before you push -- push – but at least this makes it very easy to do so.

All Committers are strongly encouraged to use jcheck to check their changeset before pushing.

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1. Download the updated version of jcheck that includes support for fx FX tags and put it somewhere on your system:

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