Deployments and environments

GitHub environments can require reviewers, restrict deployment sources, hold secrets until approval, and apply protection rules; one listed reviewer can approve, self-review can be restricted, and administrators can bypass by default.

Locator

Required reviewers: lines 40–48; deployment branches and tags: lines 56–75; environment secrets and approval: lines 96–102

Editorial note

On Free, Pro, and Team, reviewer gates apply only to public repositories. These gates cover software deployment and do not verify commercial, legal, support, data, or communications readiness.