Wildcard Protected Branch

[Andlix]

With the last version, you could only protect branches that exists. But I think it should also be possible to protect branches given as wildcard (similar to GitLab),
e.g.
pu/*
release/*
*-stable
{user}/* (this branch should be protected except {user}

I think it would be a good idea to set these attitudes globally for an organization.

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[mbarinc]

there are news about this feature?

[lafriks]

I'm thinking to work on this for 1.11 version

[mbarinc]

thank you @lafriks

[davidsvantesson]

I think it would be a good idea to set these attitudes globally for an organization.

I think that should be a separate issue / pr to not make this too big. It need to consider some thing, like should it be a default branch setting that can be changed or deactivated in each repository?

With wildcard support it is possible that several settings match one branch, so the priority / combination of different branch protections need to be considered. Should only the first matching branch be used (means it must be possible to order them) or the most restrictive or the most permissive setting be used? What if there are different users/teams configured in different matching branch protection settings?

[mbarinc]

This is a very useful feature especially if it can be set at the organization level.
It's possible to put this issue in the next release 1.12?

[6543]

@mbarinc if someone has a PR for 1.12 or is working on it?

[lunny]

@6543 I think no PR for this currently.

[zerlas]

@lafriks any news about this, it should be really cool to get this feature especially for organizations

[zedar187]

I would like to bump this issue. Having a wildcard on * (as in "all branches", thus the complete repo) would be sufficient for the start, I guess. This way you can set general settings to the wildcard (thus on a repo level) and override the settings of single branches using the branch dropdown.

[99rgosse]

I will take a look at it, if I can help !
we are interested too :)

[frankhommers]

I need this to. Especially for release/* ;-)

[sIspravnikov]

I'm interested too, it can be very usefull for repos with dozens of branches, that need to be protected

[99rgosse]

Until I find some time on this, I made a workaround with a webhook and some api calls... it's quite fast and reliable !

[frankhommers]

@99rgosse can you explain your setup. It's kind of dangerous without.

[99rgosse]

Hello @frankhommers here is the repository : https://github.com/99rgosse/branch_protection
I'll try to keep this updated ;)