tf402455 when I delete feature branch

Question

My company is using VSTS with git. The Access Control Summary settings seemed to have changed since yesterday in VSTS. I'm seeing a few more options than I was before.

I'm a member of the MyRepository Administrators and MyRepository Team.

I'm getting a:

2017 tf402455: pushes to this branch are not permitted; you must use a pull request to update this branch. 

when I try to delete the source branch from a completed pull request, despite the fact that that I have made given Allow permissions to MyRepository Administrators and MyRepository Team for Force push (rewrite history and delete branches) Normally I jut give the force push permissions for the MyRepository administrators when I do this. I added the permissions to MyRepository Team after I saw the tf402455 when I'd done it just for Administrators.

This is the kind of thing that I do multiple times a day. Have the permissions required to do this changed? The UI for VSTS seems to change every couple months and you have to spend a couple days figuring out how to do routine tasks again.

Answer 1

It looks like there is a branch policy in place which protects this branch. Whether it should be protecting you from deleting the branch or not is debatable though.

You should be able to delete the branch after removing the branch policy.