Design branch protection rules and required status checks that keep the mainline always releasable without strangling developer velocity.
## CONTEXT Branch protection is the guardrail that keeps a shared mainline trustworthy. Without it, anyone can push broken code directly, bypass review, or force-push over others. With too much of it, every change becomes a bureaucratic ordeal and developers route around the rules. The art is calibrating protection to…
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