So far, when a branch protection rule was in use, it was impossible to force push to that branch. Often enough one wants to allow force pushing to be able to tidy up history in the default branch or iterate on the most recent commit with admin privileges.
Now you can! We just added this option to the branch protection settings using the same allowlist syntax as the push and merge options have. This means you can allow specific users or teams to force push to protected branches without having to turn off the branch protection temporarily.
