We are using Bitbucket on the bitbucket.org site and I have a few questions: * While I want my developers to be able to clone to their local workstation how can I prevent/restrict developers from committing to the master (or other branches)? * I do not see a Fork option for any of our repositories - only Clone. Thus question 1. What I would like is for each developer to Fork a repo and then when they are ready to get it into the main repository to generate a Pull request. Can this be done? If so, what am I missing? TIA

Hi Lionel, For 1., it is possible to create branch permissions (for master, or any other branch you want) and specify which users can push directly to this branch. The rest of them won't be able to do so. You can read more on branch permissions and also find instructions on how to create them here: * https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/use-branch-permissions/ For 2., while you are viewing the repo in Bitbucket Cloud website, select the + sign on the top left corner (right below the search sign): Then you'll see more options, including the Fork this repository: Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions! Kind regards, Theodora

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How to control/manage the master branch and how to fork?

Lionel Dyck

We are using Bitbucket on the bitbucket.org site and I have a few questions:

While I want my developers to be able to clone to their local workstation how can I prevent/restrict developers from committing to the master (or other branches)?
I do not see a Fork option for any of our repositories - only Clone. Thus question 1.

What I would like is for each developer to Fork a repo and then when they are ready to get it into the main repository to generate a Pull request.

Can this be done? If so, what am I missing?

TIA

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Theodora Boudale

Hi Lionel,

For 1., it is possible to create branch permissions (for master, or any other branch you want) and specify which users can push directly to this branch. The rest of them won't be able to do so.

You can read more on branch permissions and also find instructions on how to create them here:

https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/use-branch-permissions/

For 2., while you are viewing the repo in Bitbucket Cloud website, select the + sign on the top left corner (right below the search sign):

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Then you'll see more options, including the Fork this repository:

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Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions!

Kind regards,
Theodora

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Theodora Boudale

Hi Lionel,

For 1., it is possible to create branch permissions (for master, or any other branch you want) and specify which users can push directly to this branch. The rest of them won't be able to do so.