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World 11: Rescue Center

I pushed to a protected branch

You will learn: how to get your work into a protected branch the right way.

The problem

Practice repo — not a real website
you / diary
Rules for main

You pushed to main. GitHub refused: main is protected. Phew! The rules did their job. Your commit is still safe on your computer.

Try it

What does GitHub want from you?

Watch

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Your commit just needs a branch. git switch -c fix-title puts a new label on it, right where you are.

Try it

Make the branch. Then push it to GitHub.

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Try it

You opened a pull request. Mei approved it. Merge it into main.

Practice repo — not a real website
you / diary
Fix the title #8
Open you wants to merge fix-title into main
  1. you

    Makes the diary title friendlier.

  2. Mei approved these changes

    Nice fix!

Checks
  • Passed test
How to merge
Ready to merge.
Your review

Predict

Why couldn’t you just force push to main?

You did it!

You can now get work into a protected branch properly.

Go deeper (optional)

Tidy up afterwards: git switch main, then git pull. Does pull say the branches diverged? The pull request was probably squashed. Your work is on GitHub, so git reset --hard origin/main is safe then. Or, right after pushing your branch, run git branch -f main origin/main.