How to reopen automatically closed branches

[Raluca Iftimie]

I have a three-step branch setup in my repository:

DEV -> UAT -> MasterSource.

I merged Dev to UAT last week with no issues.

Today I merged UAT to MasterSource and suddenly both DEV and UAT closed as a result. I may have neglected to check the close source branch checkbox on the UAT branch, but I am not sure why DEV closed as a result of that if I did (I did not touch DEV today).

My first question would be why DEV is closed (assuming that I checked the close UAT branch checkbox).

My second question is if I can reopen them. All the help articles I find tell me to sync them from my origin source, but the files in my origin source are identical to branch files, so I get "zero files synced" result and no changes in branch status.

The branches are accessible and visible, but closed. 

[Ben · Accepted solution]

Hi @Raluca Iftimie 

Bitbucket's Branches page labels branches as "Merged" when all commits on that branch are reachable from the main branch.

To get the branch out of merged status, you just need to commit to it - once the branch has a commit that isn't present in the main branch - it will show active again.

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)