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Rebasing the develop branch of your fork from IBMStreams

This is much better than using pull requests, as it leaves your forked develop even with IBMStreams develop rather than one empty commit ahead. They key here is do not do work on your develop, use branches, git branches are cheap!

http://blog.bigbinary.com/2013/09/13/how-to-keep-your-fork-uptodate.html