Sorry, the comment "it seems the workflow breaks down" was referring to the auto-close that was occurring on feature branches and the inability (or at least I thought so) to keep the remote feature branch and the revision synchronized . @benjumanji's suggestion to turn off autoclose on branches outside of master/develop I think fixes my root problem.

Interesting, how can I turn off autoclose for certain branches?

@epriestley Maybe a bug request wasn't the right thing to submit. How can I go about getting support or advice on this issue without figuring out how to reproduce it. At the end of the day it is likely not a bug but rather me breaking something through deleting a project.

I have read it, but after re-reading let me give this another go. My apologies, I know you guys are busy and I'm sitting here not knowing how to properly formulate a problem description.

@epriestley Oh! You are right. Let me take a stab at my problem then. Some of this is caused by the lack of rules for complex acceptance conditions like in T731.

@epriestley @eadler : T1279 is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks guys. Feel free to close this task as duplicate.