I see in the GitHub docs that just turning on protection for a branch does (at a minimum): disables forced pushes, and prevents branches from being deleted.
-Marshall On 9/4/2019 5:01 PM, Marshall Schor wrote: > On the asf infra slack channel, I asked about protection for uima-uimaj > branches, what was set, how to see, etc. > > The answer was: > >>>> right now, nothing, which is actually an oversight on my part. i need to >>>> go protect > the master branch. >>>> protect = refs/heads/trunk refs/heads/master refs/heads/rel/ refs/tags/rel/ >>>> that is the default protection > Protection appears to be a property of GitHub, not of "git" itself (the ProGit > book has no hits for this kind of protection). > > I cannot find this syntax anywhere. Does anyone know what this refers to? > > Also, when branches are "protected" in github, you have to additionally > specify > the kinds of protection. Does anyone know what these are? I feel like I'm > missing some significant documentation ... > > Cheers. -Marshall > > >
