From 88ace4a7ad0809d64f688dc1ee6fc8ea6cda9045 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Grzegorz Bizon <grzesiek.bizon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 12:35:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Rephrase documentation for protected actions feature

---
 doc/ci/yaml/README.md | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/ci/yaml/README.md b/doc/ci/yaml/README.md
index 0cab3270d94..16308a957cb 100644
--- a/doc/ci/yaml/README.md
+++ b/doc/ci/yaml/README.md
@@ -580,9 +580,10 @@ Optional manual actions have `allow_failure: true` set by default.
 
 **Statuses of optional actions do not contribute to overall pipeline status.**
 
-**Manual actions do inherit permissions of protected branches. In other words,
-in order to trigger a manual action assigned to a branch that the pipeline is
-running for, user needs to have ability to push to this branch.**
+**Manual actions are considered to be write actions, so permissions for
+protected branches are used when user wants to trigger an action. In other
+words, in order to trigger a manual action assigned to a branch that the
+pipeline is running for, user needs to have ability to push to this branch.**
 
 ### environment
 
-- 
GitLab