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Preview deploy

A private, temporary copy of the site for each branch.

You can review changes at a real URL before they reach production. Previews are often behind a login and should be noindexed so search engines never index them as duplicates of the real site.

Related terms

Branch Robots meta / noindex

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How changes get from a laptop to the live site safely.

Git & GitHub Branch CI/CD Static site generator

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