Branch protection pattern only matching branches authored by me

[gmulz]

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I am attempting to apply a branch protection rule to all branches in my repository, using the pattern *. When I save this rule, I see the "Currently applies to 19 branches". The branches listed that the rules are applied to are only branches authored by me (repo admin), but none of the other branches authored by other contributors in the repo. There are 33 total branches in the repo that the rule should be applied to.

When I look at the list of branches, I see a small "view rules" badge next to only my branches, none of the other ones. Clicking on this takes me to the Rulesets page, where I see "No rulesets have been added yet". This seems like a bug with the new Rulesets implementation colliding with the branch protections, but I have no idea why it's only applying to my branches and not the rest of the branches in the repo.

[ikozigbo]

[gravidThoughts]

Did you read the question? He is asking why his branch protection definition doesn't apply to all branches in the repo, regardless of the author, as he expects it will. Not to demean your excellent guidance on how to do what he doesn't want to do, but how is it possible that this was upvoted?

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[patrick-knight]

Hey @gmulz the link on the 🛡️ there only references created rulesets in the repo and will not show any existing branch protections. This is expected behavior as we intend to have rules eventually be the replacement for branch protections.