protected main branch support? about autopub

[justinmayer]

You can still have a protected main branch in an AutoPub context, in which force-pushing to and deletion of the primary branch are not allowed. No problems there at all.

But requiring all commits to be made to a non-protected branch and then submitted via a pull request, on the other hand, will not work with the current flow because AutoPub needs to be able to make and push commits directly to the primary branch.

To fix this, remove the requirement that all commits to the primary branch must be made in the form of pull requests:

https://github.com/ORG-NAME/REPO-NAME/settings/branches → Branch protection rules → main → Edit → un-check: Require a pull request before merging

There may be a way to use the GitHub API to automatically create a pull request and then immediately merge that pull request. Perhaps when the extensible plugin system work by @patrick91 has been merged, you could write a plugin that handles that kind of automated PR+merge flow.