Prevent accidental deletion of a branch?

[Petr Horcicka]

Hello,

is there a way to prevent an accidental deletion of a branch, e.g. when merging a Pull Request and someone clicks on "Delete source branch on merge"?

It is about Bitbucket Cloud.

Thank you

[Mohamed Adel · Accepted solution]

Hi Jaroslav, 

Can you check  Tim's solution ,it will do the following :

1. Deny deletion of branches.
2. Deny force pushes to branches.
3. Deny deletion of tags.
4. Deny modification of tags.

Thanks

Adel 

[jredmond]

Unfortunately, Tim's solution is for Bitbucket Server.

For Bitbucket Cloud, however, you can use branch permissions to prevent users from deleting the branch in question.

[Petr Horcicka]

Hello Tom,

there is a new option under custom settings: "Deleting this branch is not allowed"

I swear two days ago it wasn't there :-)

Thanks a lot!

[DHSV]

I'm not seeing an option to prevent deletion of master or a branch "type" (like Development)... 

https://i.imgur.com/75VVQab.png

It's very easy in a git GUI or CLI to accidentally select to delete the remote branch or mistype an option.

I'm not sure a plugin is feasible without knowing exactly what it's seeing or doing in its code execution (privacy & security issue), and also an incompatibility or update can cause disruption if we're relying on it.

[Henrik Zagerholm]

Hey, just add a user to write permissions and then you will get checkboxes for controlling deletion and rewriting history.

[Pablo Leone]

There's a bug in Jira! If no user is on the write access field you won't see the options to prevent the branch to be deleted. Add a user, check/uncheck the option, remove the user and save.

[Logan Schmidt]

Just a thought/idea, you may want to solve this problem at a lower layer, in `git` you can use an update-hook and simply prevent the deletion. This should live with the repo and protect it where it sits Bitbucket cloud or server.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/6827045

[jredmond]

Hooks are not included in pushes or pulls, though, and users do not have direct filesystem access to the .git directory in a repo on Bitbucket Cloud.

[Logan Schmidt]

@jredmondfair enough. I also assumed users could edit repos in Bitbucket Cloud.