What's the difference between Dismiss stale pull request approvals when new commits are pushed and Require approval of the most recent reviewable push branch protection option?

[Bullrich]

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In the branch settings, there are two similar options:

• Dismiss stale pull request approvals when new commits are pushed
• Require approval of the most recent reviewable push

What's the difference between these two?

When trying out the latter, it still dismisses all the reviews from the users who approved, so I don't really see a difference to the first one and I haven't find a doc explaining what it does exactly.

Thanks!

[NipulM]

Helloo 👋🏼

The "require approval of the most recent push" protection rule was introduced in oct 202), with the express purpose to prevent someone responding to a code review request from sneaking in changes and approving them themselves or using the already supplied approval from another reviewer.

The security research that explores these topics has not been broadly published, but there are some great discussions with recommendations on how to secure your branches.

With the other policy enabled, when a reviewer applies some suggestions to the code, they can't approve and merge the code without finding another person to review their changes.

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Hope this helps! 🤞🏼

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