How do I add exceptions to merge checks on a branch?

[karthiaru]

I need to allow a few users to merge without approvals. How do I add these users as exceptions?

[Stephen Sifers]

Hello Karthik,

If you wish to have a group or user be the exception from a merge check then you will need to adjust the permissions and merge check requirements on the branch to not require merge checks all together. However, if you require merge checks to be applied to the branch and one of the requirements is to have X amount of approvals, then all users will be held to this requirement of the branch.

Example permissions and Merge Check setup:

Let's say Alana (Principal Engineer), Harvey (QA lead), and another 5 engineers are working on a Teams in Space project. Everyone has write access to the repository, but you want to restrict access to the master and develop branches. From the branch permission dialog, you might want to assign permissions like this:

BranchBranch permissionsMerge checks

Master	Write access: Alana Merge via pull request: Alana, Harvey	Check for 2 passed builds on the last commit
Develop	Write access: Alana, Harvey Merge via pull request: Alana, Harvey, teamsinspace:developers (group)	Check for 3 passed builds on the last commit Check for at least 2 approvals Check for unresolved pull request tasks

Source Document

Further documentation:

Branch Permissions

I hope this clarifies Permissions and Merge Checks.

-Stephen Sifers