Allow users to create protected branches via CLI
What does this MR do?
This is for fixing a regression introduced by: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/24969
This fix will allow users who are allowed to push to protected branches to create protected branches via CLI as well, just like before. The checks for protected branch creation won't need to run.
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Closes #59289 (closed)