Pulls merge API - allow an admin privilege merge to bypass branch protections

[sevagh]

Hello,

In the Pulls Merge API: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/pulls#merge-a-pull-request

There is no option for the "admin" merge which ignores required status checks or other branch protections.

Such an admin option exists already in the UI, and we can see that the --admin flag was added to the gh cli for the same purpose:

cli/cli#1198
https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/4071/files

Could there be a parameter added to the pulls merge API to add admin: true or something similar?

Otherwise, are there any existing ways to achieve this goal?

Thanks.

[daveygit2050]

It appears you do not need to specify any additional options when merging via the API as an admin. It will just work.