Support preview Protected Branches API

[gmlewis]

Fixes #876.
Closes #934.

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[gmlewis]

Actually, now that I'm looking at the final results of the merge, all the important things have been addressed, and the extra omitemptys are really not desirable anyway because these fields can't be omitted as they are not pointers.

Closing.