Git and Continuous Integration Questions

Focuses on how Git repositories integrate with continuous integration and delivery systems. Key areas include triggering mechanisms such as webhooks and polling, branch based triggering strategies and policies, handling pull requests and running verification builds prior to merge, status checks and required checks for protected branches, merge and release tagging workflows, pipeline as code and repository driven pipeline configuration, authentication and credential management for repository access, large repository handling and sparse checkout strategies, caching and incremental build strategies, rerunning and recovery of failed builds, integration with code review and gating, and implications for monorepos, submodules and large scale branching models. Also covers security considerations such as secret management, commit signing, and least privilege access for build agents.