Per branch MR method settings
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Problem to solve
In a single project, the above customer would like to set the merge request method on a per-branch basis:
Gitlab supports MR settings globally per project, extending it to be per protected branch is something we'd like to see in future versions.
With that, we can allow non-FF merges into dev branches, and require FF-only for prod branches to guarantee that only tested and verifying commits are deployed
I found similar issues to only fine-grain the approvals here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/2371 and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/460
Proposal
Add merge method to protected branch settings, that would override the default project merge method.