I’m trying to protect main in general, but allow direct pushes (i.e. without MR) that change CHANGELOG.md. For various reasons this would help with deployment. That’s the ideal (which I’ve pretty much given up on), but even an MR that didn’t require approval would be good.
I’m having trouble understanding how to set this up (or even if it is possible - mostly people seem to use CODEOWNERS to add restrictions rather than remove them…).
My protected branch settings are as follows:
(Incidentally, the two statements on this screen seem contradictory… Reject code pushes that change files listed in the CODEOWNERS file vs the tooltip for Code Owner Approval: Does not apply to users allowed to push.).
And merge approvals settings are:
[General]
* @stuartmcgill
^[CHANGELOG]
CHANGELOG.md @stuartmcgill
I think these settings should require approval for everything except the changelog. However in reality everything appears optional when I create an MR targeting main. I am a direct member of the project (by virtue of being an Owner).
I’ve tried all combinations of these settings I can think of and played around with the CODEOWNERS syntax but to no avail. The only thing that did work was specifying a single file instead of the wildcard, which doesn’t really help.
If anyone has tried something like this (or if it just can’t be done) I’d love to know…thanks