Branch preview
A branch preview is a running copy of a website from one git branch, so work on that branch can be seen and tested without changing the live site.
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What it is
Teams keep unfinished work on branches. A branch preview turns a branch into something you can click through: the same pages, styles and content, with the branch's changes applied.
It lets designers, writers and reviewers see the work as it will look, and lets several pieces of work go on side by side without stepping on each other.
In Xodia
In Xodia each branch opens in its own live preview. The branch menu in the top bar switches between them, and the live branch carries a live tag. Teammates on the same branch share one preview and see each other's selections; people on other branches don't.
When the work is ready, open a pull request from the branch and merge it, or use Deploy, and your host deploys it.
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Related terms
- Preview deploymentA preview deployment is a temporary, private copy of a website built from a branch or pull request, so changes can be checked at a real address before they go live.
- StagingStaging is a copy of a website where changes are checked before they go live, usually built from a separate branch and kept away from visitors and search engines.
- Restore pointA restore point is a saved state of a website you can go back to in one step if a later change goes wrong.