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# Promote Changes Merged Outside of DevOps Center

If you merge the change request in the source control system, the changes are in a partially promoted state because they’ve been merged but not yet deployed to the associated pipeline environment. You can complete the promotion in DevOps Center or use Salesforce CLI.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/images/icon_note.png)

Note See [External Change Requests and Merges](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_external_merges.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You can create a change request and merge your changes directly in the source control system, which is the first half of the promotion process. You can complete the promotion by deploying all externally merged changes to the pipeline stage’s associated environment within DevOps Center or by using Salesforce CLI.") for tips about creating the change request and merging the changes directly in the source control system.

To keep everything in sync, whether you merged changes for a work item or changes in a downstream pipeline branch, you must finish the promotion before any more changes can be promoted to or from the stage.

- To complete the promotion using Salesforce CLI, see [Deploy Changes Using Salesforce CLI (Beta)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_deploy_changes_cli.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use Salesforce CLI to deploy changes to a pipeline stage’s environment or to perform a validate-only deployment. You must externally merge any changes in the source control repository before you can perform the deployment using the CLI. While the CLI command runs, you can see the progress of the promotion reflected in the DevOps Center Pipeline Stages tab.").
- To complete the promotion in DevOps Center, go to Pipeline Stages and follow these steps.

![Work Item Changes tab showing that changes were merged externally in the associated feature branch.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/devops_center/images/work-item-merged-externally.png)

![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/images/icon_important.png)

Important If you’re working directly in GitHub, delays can occur between when these actions happen and when they’re reflected in DevOps Center. If you take subsequent actions on the related objects in DevOps Center before they’re reflected, you're likely to see unexpected or inconsistent behavior. For metadata changes, we recommend that you wait for delayed events to be reflected in DevOps Center. For non-metadata changes, such as updates to the .forceignore file, you can continue with the promotion.

1. In DevOps Center, click **Pipeline**.
2. In the Pipeline Stages tab, click **Complete Promotion**.
    
    ![Pipelines Stages tab showing that you can’t proceed until you complete the promotion when changes are merged outside of DevOps Center.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/devops_center/images/pipeline-complete-promotion.png)