Protected branches and required status checks

Protected branches and required status checks

It's all too easy to force push to the wrong branch, overwriting someone else's changes with your own. Sometimes it results in losing work (unless you know how to undo almost anything in Git).

Over the next few weeks we'll be rolling out a new feature called Protected Branches which gives repository administrators the ability to disable force pushes to specific branches. When it's enabled for your repositories you'll be able to go to the Branches tab in repository settings and protect branches:

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