Branch-specific Push Rules

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Problem to solve

Apply push rules to specific branches.

Intended users

Further details

As a developer, I can push commit messages to certain branches under one (more relaxed) set of rules. But, when I commit to other branches, like integration branches (master, or ones I specify), my commit messages will be examined against a different set of rules.

Branch-specific rules would allow me to move quickly on my feature branches, but apply rigidity to the important master branch.

Proposal

My guess is that this would involve quite a bit of effort. It could be done a couple of ways:

  • making the interface for current push rules (probably not all of them, just ones that make sense for specific brances) take a branch name and allow you to create a set of rules below it. From a UI perspective this would look a lot like how one creates Deploy tokens or adds branch protections.
  • allowing the customer to build pre-receive hoooks similar to GitHub, but on gitlab.com, and of course in a safe way. (you can already do this if you run your own servers)

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