Any way of restoring a deleted git repository?

[JanetGilbert]

It seems like it used to be possible but Atlassian support no longer has any options to do this. I deleted it less than 7 days ago.

[Ajay _view26_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @JanetGilbert 

Welcome to the community!

Your best bet right now is to check every local machine that had a clone of the repo.

Run git remote -v to confirm it points to Bitbucket, and as long as the local clone exists, you still have the full history. You can re-create the Bitbucket repo and push it back up with git push --all and git push --tags.

Also worth checking: any CI/CD systems (Pipelines, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.) that pulled the repo — they often cache a shallow clone. If you find one, deepen it with git fetch --unshallow before pushing back up.

[Ben]

Hi @JanetGilbert 

I can confirm that it has never been possible to restore a repository from the UI, unfortunately - this has always required support intervention.

I've found the repository you're referring to and have restored it from the backend, it will have a different name than before (it includes the date it was deleted), but you can change the name back in Repository Settings.

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

[JanetGilbert]

Thanks!