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Changes from the upstream forest are pulled into the submission forest automatically. You can keep your work on a fix branch in sync with what's going on upstream by simply merging in changes from the default branch.
Is jcheck
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turned on?
Jcheck is not enabled for the submission forest; however, it generally is enabled for the upstream forest. If so, your change must pass jcheck when it is merged with the upstream forest.
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Once your branch has been integrated upstream, it will be closed automatically be closed.. This is the common case. Occasionally though, there may be a branch that needs to be abandoned. This might happen when a branch has been pushed to the submission forest but failed to integrate upstream.
Can I reuse a branch for a different fix?
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