I created a new project and tried pushing to it from existing files on my computer. However I am getting the message “You are not allowed to push code to protected branches on this project”. I’ve tried going though the instructions that are displayed after creating a project a number of times, but I…

New gitlab.com project: cannot push

m.kirches January 6, 2017, 5:21pm 2

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