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  1. Bitbucket Data Center
  2. BSERV-7118

restrict ability to delete branches to REPO_ADMIN

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      In order to protect maintenance and release branches in Stash from being deleted via git push using refspecs, we used the ref-change-settings plugin. This restricted the ability to delete branches only to administrators.

      Unfortunately, with release 2.8, Stash offers anyone with the REPO_WRITE permission on a repository to delete any branch in that repository from the Branches tab in the Stash UI. (see STASH-3347).

      This was followed by the new REST API offered by the Branch Utilities Plugin, which also allowed anyone with the REPO_WRITE permission on a repository to delete any branch in that repository.

      The ref-change-settings plugin does not get called here and thus cannot help us protect these branches anymore.

      It would be a good idea to restrict such destructive actions (as was the intent of the ref-change-settings plugin) to a smaller group of people (e.g. people with the REPO_ADMIN permission)

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              gthomas.cs02 george thomas
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