Allow selecting protected branches by pattern

[jsil3601]

This is a suggestion for improvement.
My knowledge of gitea code or go Lang is insufficient to pr this.

Currently, to add a branch to 'branch protection' , we need to create the branch, goto repo settings, and then select it individually from drop down, and set its security setting (allowed push teams, voters etc).
This means every time we have a new release branch, we need to go through this process, which is repetitive and prone to human error.

It will be very helpful if we could add a pattern, (such as release*, similar to how we select branches by pattern in the 'webhooks' page) thus allowing to select the protection settings by pattern and not one by one. As new branches are added in the future if they match the pattern they will also be protected.

Is this feature interesting to the gitea community /devs?

Thanks

[lunny]

Hm, I think there is already an issue to report this.

[jsil3601]

I didn't find such an issue... Is this something that's planned for implementation?

[lunny]

I think this is a duplicate of #2529 . There is no plan for that.

[jsil3601]

Yes you are right it's a duplicate. Can this be looked at for a future release?