Block merge from a branch matching name "staging"

@saravtr Can you set up protected branches for these projects?

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/protected_branches.html

If you're looking to do this instance wide (enforce the same protected branch rules across the entire instance), the following issue covers that proposal:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1176

And at the group level:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/2653

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Hi Mark,

Thanks for the response. Protected branches allows push and merge conditions for roles. My requirement is to block a particular branch getting merged to any other branch. Is there a setting in Gitlab for this or we should use githook for this?

e.g staging branch should never be allowed to merge with any other branch except another staging branch.

Let me know if you can share me some sample githooks to block merges from particular branch.

Thanks,

Sarav

Interesting. Can you explain your workflow in more detail please?

Hi Mark,

We are currently having staging branch for each test environments and we merge release/feature branch to this staging branch based on the requirement and deploy into respective test environments from this staging branch.

e.g staging/sit1 , staging/sit3.

This branches are only for deployments to target test environments. So, ideally these branches should not be merged to any other branch. Whenever i issue merge command, branch name should be checked for a name pattern( staging) and merge should be blocked.

e.g

Merge staging to staging --> should be allowed

Merge staging to non-staging --> should not be allowed

I assume this can be achieved only through custom githooks at Gitlab server.

Thanks,

Sarav