GitHub Actions said ✅ Success. The server disagreed. Here's how we fixed the false positive with a version file + 423 lock detection.
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GitHub Actions said ✅ Success. The server disagreed.
We kept running into a subtle CI/CD problem: after pushing to main, GitHub marked the deployment as successful — but checking the server revealed the old code was still there. No error. No alert.
Just stale code running in production.
This article walks through the root cause, and the two-part fix we implemented: lock detection and commit SHA verification.
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