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We kept getting questions about commit status, we needed more clarification in the docs

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@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ Buildkite integrates with several popular code repository management systems (RM
* [Bitbucket Server](/docs/integrations/bitbucket-server)
* [Phabricator](/docs/integrations/phabricator)
* [Other Git servers](/docs/integrations/git)

Note: Commit Status uses the latest built commit on a pipeline
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Hi @stephanieatte, sorry this has taken me a while to get around to. Can you please unpack this a bit more for me? What is the issue customers are running into?

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@mbelton-buildkite No worries, the Customers get confused about if the commit statuses feature works with the first or latest build on a pipeline. So having it explicitly stating this in our docs will be great

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It feels a bit out of place here, what do you think about including it on the relevant pages? Thinking:

Looks like it's not supported or not mentioned in the others.

Perhaps just something like:

The commit status on a PR shows the result of the most recent build.

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@mbelton-buildkite I see but I didn't want to repeat the informtion, but I understand it looks out of place. we might have to put it on all the pages

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