Improvement

March 29, 20231 Minute Read

Info messages for bypassing branch protections in Git

We now show bypassed branch protection rules in response to Git pushes. These are information messages and are not designed to block workflows.

Historically there was no indication after a Git push that branch rules had been bypassed.

Repo admins, actors with the bypass branch protections permissions, and actors in bypass lists on branch protections will now see a list of rules that were bypassed.

Screenshot of Git command line interface showing list of rules

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Info messages for bypassing branch protections in Git - GitHub Changelog