Refresh or Clone is process whereby data from Production or other higher environments is refreshed in to lower environments. This can cause loss of code changes on environment that was refreshed/cloned. Post Refresh Request enables an environment to be refreshed brought to its original state after that environment it has been cloned refreshed from another environment. Post Post Refresh process will identify all the projects that are different between the Refreshed To and Refreshed From environments. If If a project is package-based, then it will also determine which files are different between the source and targetRefresh To and Refresh From environments. If there are files that are different, file differences then for each package-based projects, project two packages will be created. First package which will be the Sync package that contains all the files that are deployed to the Refreshed From environment. The second package, Refresh package will include all the files deployed to the Refreshed To environment . Files that are only deployed to the Refreshed To environment will be marked as destructive in the Sync package. The following steps are performed to complete the post refresh request.
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