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Restrict production deployment to your protected main branch.

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Section: Branching and trigger patterns

Deploy only from main

yaml
yaml
on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
Explanation

Keep deploy workflows tighter than CI workflows. A common split is PR checks for CI and push-to-main for CD.

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