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Added a note about the inability to rename environments and advised caution when choosing names.

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It is not obvious at this point that renaming an environment later is not possible.

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Added a note about the inability to rename environments and advised caution when choosing names.
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Pull request overview

Adds guidance to the GitHub Actions “Manage environments” documentation to warn readers that environment names can’t be changed after creation, helping prevent avoidable rework.

Changes:

  • Added an in-page note warning that environments can’t be renamed later.

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