Docs feedback: Please add a paragraph on the Protected branches page explaining exactly what the permission "Allowed to merge" means for a protected branch.
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https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/protected_branches.html
There is no explicit documentation about "Allowed to merge" on the Protected Branches page. Although I can infer that it means that those Roles or Users have the ability to see and press the Merge button on a MR page (or via the API?), it is really left to the imagination what else they can or cannot do.
The statement "The permission to merge or push to protected branches defines whether or not a user can run CI/CD pipelines and execute actions on jobs." in the "Run pipelines on protected branches" seems unclear to me. Maybe reworded: "Roles or Users that are Allowed to merge or Allowed to push to a protected branch are able to run, rerun, [whatever else] pipelines and jobs associated with that branch."