Removing required approvers from VSTS pull request

Question

We are using VSTS together with git for source control, etc. I have a VSTS/git pull request that has several redundant required approvers. Several of them have already approved the pull request. I'd like to go ahead and complete the pull request.

I can remove the extraneous required approvers by clicking on the little X beside each name in VSTS. However, when I then try to complete the pull request VSTS re-adds them back to the pull request. Is there any way to do what I'm trying to do?

Thanks,

Answer 1

According to the error messages you get, you are trying to delete the required approvers that are specified from "Control Panel\Version Control\Branch Policies".

However, The required approvers cannot be deleted. You can only delete the approvers specified when create the pull request. You can un-check the "Required" option if you do want to delete them.