• Introduction
• Construct file
• Change main branch requiring pr

Introduction

The main parent projects repo.

Construct file

Change main branch requiring pr

gh api -X PUT \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  repos/brad-projects/projects/branches/main/protection \
  --input protection.json

Add a new branch protection

Exactly — this error happens because you just enabled branch protection requiring pull requests. Once that rule is active, you cannot push directly to main; all changes must go through a pull request.

Here’s what to do next:

1. Create a new branch locally:

git checkout -b protection-policy

2. Commit your changes to the new branch (you already did, so just make sure the branch has the commit):

git log --oneline

You should see your "Add protection policy" commit on protection-policy.

3. Push the branch to GitHub:

git push -u origin protection-policy

4. Create a pull request:

You can do it via the CLI:

gh pr create --base main --head protection-policy --title "Add protection policy" --body "Add branch protection JSON file"

Or via the GitHub web interface.

5. Merge the PR once approved — this is now the only way to update main because of the branch protection rule.

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If you want, I can show a shortcut one-liner to push and immediately open a PR using gh so you don’t need multiple commands. Do you want that?