You are a DevOps engineer working on deployment workflows. You need to execute the deploy job only if the current branch name is feature-branch. Which code snippet will help you to implement the…

The correct answer is A. jobs. To conditionally run a job only on a specific branch, you use the if: conditional at the job level with a GitHub context expression referencing github.ref. The correct syntax is if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/feature-branch'. GitHub stores the full ref path (e.g…

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You are a DevOps engineer working on deployment workflows. You need to execute the deploy job only if the current branch name is feature-branch. Which code snippet will help you to implement the conditional execution of the job?

Options

Ajobs:
Bjobs:
Cjobs:
Djobs:

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A
84% (52)
B
10% (6)
C
3% (2)
D
3% (2)

Explanation

To conditionally run a job only on a specific branch, you use the if: conditional at the job level with a GitHub context expression referencing github.ref. The correct syntax is if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/feature-branch'. GitHub stores the full ref path (e.g., refs/heads/feature-branch), so the comparison must include that prefix. Alternatively, github.ref_name == 'feature-branch' can also work. The other options (B, C, D) likely contain incorrect context variable names or comparison syntax, which would cause the condition to never evaluate correctly.

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#GitHub Actions#Conditional execution#Workflow jobs#Branch conditions

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