I have a git repository where some of the configuration files are auto-generated by scripts and pushed to the main branch. I like to enable branch protection rule to protect the main branch but like to disable these rules for certain file patterns.
Whether this is possible in Github?
While it is not possible, you could isolate those auto-generated script in their own folder.
And that folder could be a submodule (as illustrated here), referencing your own repository, but following a different branch, one which is not push-protected.
git submodule add -b scripts -- /url/to/your/own/repo scripts
git commit -m "Add script branch as submodule folder"
From the main branch, a git submodule update --remote would pull the latest of the scripts branch into the scripts subfolder.