Restore a deleted branch from pull request

[Rohini Pasupuleti]

Hi,

We have accidentally deleted a remote branch but we have a pull request of this deleted branch and the parent branch is also deleted. Can we restore this branch somehow?

Regards,

Rohini

[Julius Davies [bit-booster.com]]

Suggestion #1:  if you know the commit-id for the branch you want to restore, this usually works (from a reasonably up-to-date clone):

git push origin [commit-id]:refs/heads/[name-of-branch]

Suggestion #2:  if "[commit-id]" is not present in the clone, then things get a little trickier, since you'll need to mess around in Bitbucket's back-end area ($BITBUCKET_HOME/shared/data/repositories), and you can potentially break things catastrophically if you're messing around in there.

Note:  I assume you're on Bitbucket Server.   If you're on Bitbucket Cloud, then suggestion #1 still works, but you'll need to open a support ticket with Atlassian to attempt anything similar to suggestion #2.