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Sep 5, 2015 at 16:33
Really interesting to see that GitHub is allowing you to enforce tests pass before merging:
Protected branches and required status checks
Protected branches and required status checks
It’s all too easy to force push to the wrong branch, overwriting someone else’s changes with your own. Sometimes it results in losing work (unless you know how to undo…

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