Enhancements for admins bypassing branch protections on github.com

When editing a file on github.com, repo admins, actors with the bypass branch protections permissions, and actors in bypass lists on branch protections will now default to creating a new branch instead for directly committing. You can still commit directly to a protected branch, but doing so will add notifications in-line highlighting that some rules will be bypassed.

Historically the default behavior was to push through any branch protections with no notifications they were being bypassed.

Now we recommend creating a branch for admins eligible to bypass branch protection rules. This behavior occurs when adding new files to a repository as well as during pull requests.

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