If you are using a third-party automation server such as Jenkins, you can automatically start a branch merge after you publish it to the development source system.

To publish a branch and automatically start a merge, do the following tasks:

1. Create a Pega repository connection between the remote development system and the development source system. For more information, see Adding a Pega repository.
2. Configure the pyPostPutArtifactSuccess activity to merge branches automatically after publishing them to the development source system. For more information, see Configuring the pyPostPutArtifactSuccess activity.

3. Publish the branch to the development source system through the Pega repository. For more information, see Publishing a branch to a repository.