RFR: 1830: Support wildcard branch protection with prbranches

[Erik Joelsson]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 21:59:37 GMT, Zhao Song <zsong at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> In this patch, notifyBot would add wildcard branch protection for the repo, and when the bot tries to delete the pr/* branch, it will temporarily remove wildcard branch protection.
>
> bots/notify/src/main/java/org/openjdk/skara/bots/notify/prbranch/PullRequestBranchNotifier.java line 67:
> 
>> 65:         if (protectBranches) {
>> 66:             log.info("Removing branch protection for " + branch);
>> 67:             pr.repository().unprotectBranchPattern(branch);
> 
> We still need this because it's possible that we have some pr branch protected before we deploy this patch.

You should add a code comment explaining this so we may eventually remove that code later.

Have you checked how the call behaves if there is no protection to remove?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/skara/pull/1489#discussion_r1142741076