GIT: How to protect the branch from being removed by other developers?

Question

After the first release of our product, we will be switching to a different branches for the main development and feature development. Is there a way to create a branch in such

Answer 1

Since the OP shershams mentioned in the comments

we're planning to switch to github and I was wondering if they have something implemented there for this purpose

It turns out there is something implemented (and available soon) in GitHub:

Protected branches and required status checks (September 3, 2015) will allow you to protect a branch:

• against forced pushed
• against deletion
• against merged changes until required status checks pass

Note that, since Dec. 4th 2019, you can grant all users with push access the ability to delete a protected branch by enabling Allow deletions.