Topic
Everything filed under repository-rulesets, across every section.
GitHub’s legacy tag protections were migrated to tag rulesets in August 2024. Use this post-migration checklist to inventory tag-targeting rulesets, verify release-tag writers and bypass actors, clean up retired API tooling, and rehearse safe tag-creation failures.
Turn an inherited protected-tag setup into an explicit release policy: decide who may create, move, or delete version tags, then test the policy with the same identity your release automation uses.
Migrate legacy GitHub protected-tag patterns to tag-targeting repository rulesets without accidentally widening release permissions. Includes a translation checklist, an overlap example, and a validation plan for release automation.
GitHub’s legacy tag-protection rules were migrated to tag rulesets after scheduled API brownouts in 2024. Use this checklist to translate patterns and permissions, create or audit repository rulesets through the supported path, and verify that release tags still point to the intended commits.