How to allow push from server to repo on protected branch?

[thestepafter]

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So I am using a deployment service (Laravel Forge) and I want to automatically push production updates back to a protected branch before I deploy new updates. I am encountering this issue though and I'm not sure what the recommended approach would be. I had this working fine in Gitlab with a protect branch and the same SSH deploy key. (write access is enabled in Gitea for this branch.)

remote: Gitea: protected branch master can not be pushed to

What is the recommend approach with Gitea for pushing updates from production back to the repo on a protected brach?

[zeripath]

You could add a whitelist.

Deploy keys act as the repository owner so if you add the repository owner to the whitelist that should work.

(Now, that might be difficult with an organisation but let me think)

We could add another option to the protection to allow writing deploy keys to push.

[thestepafter]

I solved this by adding my individual key (as organization and repository owner) to the server and setting .ssh/config to use that key when pushing back to the Gitea server.

The additional option sounds like a great idea though @zeripath. This would enable more fine grained control.