I need the merge policy "force squash and merge unless source branch is protected then force regular merge"

[peterHakio]

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When having a setup where feature branches is merged into a stable branch (staging) which is occationaly merged into main, I would prefer to have all feature branches merge with squash and merge and when staging and main gets merged into each other do it with regular merge, since I don't want to destroy history. It makes allot of sense that you naturally can't squash and merge protected branches and all non protected branches should be merged with squash and merge. I have used this policy for many years in the repo's I have were github flow is not an option.

I think this would be very nice to have that setting that enforces that.

[patrick-knight]

Check out the new PR setting in rulesets that recently went to preview to see if that helps you achieve the outcome you are after: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/146284

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