In software development, code review is important for maintaining code quality.

To help project maintainers implement code-review policies, GitHub provides a convenient approach, protected branch, which enforces pull requests to satisfy certain review policies before merging.

The Downside of Enforcing Code-Review Policies

Although protected branches sound like a great plan, in practice, they can be annoying because not all pull requests require human attention.

For example, if I want to update my contact information in a markdown file, there’s no point in asking another developer to review my change.

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