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The reason for this is, firstly, to review changes before sharing with other team members working off the master branch.
Secondly, as DEVsheds is making many small commits (for each file create, save or delete operation) and pushing these to the central repository to avoid any loss of work should a workspace container timeout after a period of inactivity (set at 30 minutes for the initial release), working in a feature branch allows the history log to be tidied before merging into the back to master branch and sharing with teammates.
The feature branch name has the prefix europa-.
Clicking on the “Branches” link in the Bitbucket sidebar menu takes you to the page where you can create a Pull Request from the DEVsheds feature branch.
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