[jdkoeck]

CI is a prerequisite for CD.

[nerdponx]

I've done smaller projects before where "CI" only consists of merging to trunk/main/master, while testing, linting, etc. is covered by code review and the honor system. I wouldn't advocate this for something business critical that a lot of developers collaborate on, but you can do CD with only trivial CI.

[berkle4455]

It’s literally not.

[teach]

I'm tempted to just downvote you and move on with my life but I'm genuinely curious.

Given that it's meaningless to Deploy something without Integrating the changes, what do you _actually_ mean by "You don’t need [CI]. Stick with CD only."

Are you just talking about testing the changes? Help us out here.

[twic]

What if people push unmerged feature branches, and then the automation just deploys the most recent one?

I'm not advocating this, just to be clear.

[xboxnolifes]

I guess you could just have an unchanging project redeploy itself every hour or so.

[nerdponx]

It might be required in that it's impossible to deliver continuously if changes are not integrated continuously, for some definition of "integrated".