Status Check - CI/CD Glossary Definition
A status check is a pass or fail result reported against a commit (by CI or an app) that branch protection can require before a pull request may merge.
Required checks
In branch protection you mark specific checks as required, so a PR cannot merge until they are green. GitHub Actions jobs surface as checks by their job name. Combine with "require branches to be up to date" to ensure checks ran against the latest base.
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