Document repository settings
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docs/contributing/repository-settings.md
+# Repository settings
+
+(In addition to https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/docs/how-to-configure-new-repository.md)
+
+* Automatically delete head branches: CHECKED
+
+ So that bot PR branches will be deleted.
+
+## Branch protections
+
+(In addition to https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/docs/how-to-configure-new-repository.md)
+
+### `main` and `v*`
+
+* Require branches to be up to date before merging: UNCHECKED
+
+ PR jobs take too long, and leaving this unchecked has not been a significant problem.
+
+* Status checks that are required:
+
+ * EasyCLA
+ * accept-pr
+
+### `gh-pages`
+
+* Everything UNCHECKED.
+
+ This branch is currently only used for directly pushing benchmarking results from the
+ [Nightly overhead benchmark](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/actions/workflows/nightly-benchmark-overhead.yml)
+ job.
+
+### `**/**`
+
+* Status checks that are required:
+
+ EasyCLA
+
+* Allow deletions: CHECKED
+
+ So that bot PR branches can be deleted

Document repository settings (#5614)