From 756a601079550c7d6bf86f50692f81ee95cebe4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ophelia Goldstein <159258143+opheliagoldstein@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 20:47:30 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] docs(readme): add warning about required redeploy after changing environment variables to apply updates (#4546) Co-authored-by: Alexandr --- readme.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md index db112661..73440a67 100644 --- a/readme.md +++ b/readme.md @@ -893,6 +893,9 @@ GitHub Readme Stats provides several environment variables that can be used to c See [the Vercel documentation](https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/projects/environment-variables) on adding these environment variables to your Vercel instance. +> [!WARNING]\ +> Please remember to redeploy your instance after making any changes to the environment variables so that the updates take effect. The changes will not be applied to the previous deployments. + ## Keep your fork up to date You can keep your fork, and thus your private Vercel instance up to date with the upstream using GitHub's [Sync Fork button](https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/working-with-forks/syncing-a-fork). You can also use the [pull](https://github.com/wei/pull) package created by [@wei](https://github.com/wei) to automate this process.