More flexible branch-level access control

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Proposal

GitLab supports specifying roles/users who can merge or push to branches (a specific branch or multiple branches matching a wildcard) using the protected branch feature.

A customer has a demand to specify more flexible branch-level access control. This includes the following.

• Only the specific users/roles can read branches
• Only the specific users/roles can perform force push, but others only can perform non-force push to branches
• Only the specific users/roles can open merge request to/from branches
• Other flexible access controls, such as those supported by Gerrit

Link to request (Internal): https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/566188