I am an owner of my org repositories and I have more than a thousand of it, so I write automation scripts with API calls to manage GitHub repository settings. The following is an example of the issue:

I have a github repository which has branch protection settings for relase branch:

{
“url”: “https://api.github.com/repos/mdsol/go-cd-test/branches/release/protection”,
“required_pull_request_reviews”: {
“url”: “https://api.github.com/repos/mdsol/go-cd-test/branches/release/protection/required_pull_request_reviews”,
“dismiss_stale_reviews”: false,
“require_code_owner_reviews”: false,
“required_approving_review_count”: 1
},
“enforce_admins”: {
“url”: “https://api.github.com/repos/mdsol/go-cd-test/branches/release/protection/enforce_admins”,
“enabled”: false
}
}

I ran the following command to update required status checks of protected branch:

curl -sS -X PATCH “$GITHUB_API/repos/mdsol/go-cd-test/branches/release/protection/required_status_checks” -H “Authorization: token $TRAVIS_TOKEN” -H “Accept: application/vnd.github.luke-cage-preview+json” -d ‘{“strict”:false,“contexts”:[“GoCD”]}’

but it returned:
{
“message”: “Required status checks not enabled”,
“documentation_url”: “https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#update-required-status-checks-of-protected-branch”

}

I searched the documents and can’t find anything helpful to enable “Required status checks” through API calls. Do you have any ideas and suggestions? Thanks!

I don’t want to use “-X PUT” because I want to keep existing branch protection rules and they are very diverse in repositories.