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9 changes: 6 additions & 3 deletions COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md
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@@ -698,9 +698,12 @@ $ git rev-list upstream/master...HEAD | xargs core-validate-commit
Optional: When landing your own commits, force push the amended commit to the
branch you used to open the pull request. If your branch is called `bugfix`,
then the command would be `git push --force-with-lease origin master:bugfix`.
When the pull request is closed, this will cause the pull request to
show the purple merged status rather than the red closed status that is
usually used for pull requests that weren't merged.
Don't manually close the PR, GitHub will close it automatically later after you
push it upstream, and will mark it with the purple merged status rather than the
red closed status. If you close the PR before GitHub adjusts its status, it will
show up as a 0 commit PR and the changed file history will be empty. Also if you
push upstream before you push to your branch, GitHub will close the issue with
red status so the order of operations is important.

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