Wildcard branch protection should allow branch creation

[srodionov-cbtw]

Feature Description

Given a branch protection rule with a wildcard like "release/**" and "disabled push",
as a developer without administrator privileges, I want to be able to create a new branch called release/whatever with the branch creation UI in gitea, as long as no such branch exists.

currently I get the error:
"Gitea: Not allowed to push to protected branch release/whatever"

I want the branch protection to protect existing branches only, while beeing able to create new branches, that once created automatically get the protection.
If necessary it could also be a configurable option, if the branch protection is applied to new branches.

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[jpraet]

If this gets implemented, it should be made configurable. I'm using a branch protection for pattern *'* to prevent users from creating branches containing a ', because that causes issues in our CI system. Or an alternative solution should be provided to handle that requirement of enforcing naming conventions for branches.

[adamel]

As a workaround just create a branch with non-protected name and then rename to the protected name. This can be done by any user with write access to the repo.