PATCH /repos/{owner}/{repo}/branches/{branch}/protection/required_status_checks
Protected branches are available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see GitHub's products in the GitHub Help documentation.
Updating required status checks requires admin or owner permissions to the repository and branch protection to be enabled.
Servers
- https://api.github.com
Path parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
repo |
String | Yes |
The name of the repository without the |
branch |
String | Yes |
The name of the branch. Cannot contain wildcard characters. To use wildcard characters in branch names, use the GraphQL API. |
owner |
String | Yes |
The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive. |
Request headers
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Content-Type |
String | Yes |
The media type of the request body.
Default value: "application/json" |
Request body fields
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
contexts[] |
Array | No |
Closing down notice: The list of status checks to require in order to merge into this branch. If any of these checks have recently been set by a particular GitHub App, they will be required to come from that app in future for the branch to merge. Use |
checks[] |
Array | No |
The list of status checks to require in order to merge into this branch. |
checks[].context |
String | Yes |
The name of the required check |
checks[].app_id |
Integer | No |
The ID of the GitHub App that must provide this check. Omit this field to automatically select the GitHub App that has recently provided this check, or any app if it was not set by a GitHub App. Pass -1 to explicitly allow any app to set the status. |
strict |
Boolean | No |
Require branches to be up to date before merging. |
How to start integrating
- Add HTTP Task to your workflow definition.
- Search for the API you want to integrate with and click on the name.
- This loads the API reference documentation and prepares the Http request settings.
- Click Test request to test run your request to the API and see the API's response.