[xtracto]

Interesting, protected branches come free in GitLab. I never used Github to host my serious repos (I was using Bitbucket as soon as they started providing Git in addition to Hg).

I would suppose that as time passes by, Microsoft will improve the free offering avaialable on their service.

[dsumenkovic]

Here's the link if anyone wants more details https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/protected_branches.h.... It's available in both Core and Free tiers.