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Why is the fork option not showing up?

Alessandro Wilner

I created a bitbucket account using google authentication, and I'm trying to fork a repo, but the fork option doesn't appear. I confirmed with the repo owner, forks are not restricted and there already are more than 10 forks. I tried some other random repos and I can only clone or download, not fork. I tried using chrome and firefox on different machines (mac, pc, android)...
Any ideas?
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Stefan Prelle

I noticed that explicitly granting people read access allows them to not just read, but also fork.

I still consider it a bug, that you cannot fork a public repository, but at least there is a workaround.

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Stefan Prelle

I noticed that explicitly granting people read access allows them to not just read, but also fork.

I still consider it a bug, that you cannot fork a public repository, but at least there is a workaround.

Theodora Boudale

Hi @Alessandro Wilner and @Stefan Prelle,

Our development team is looking into this, I'll post here when I have an update.

Kind regards,
Theodora

Stefan Prelle

@Theodora BoudaleThanks for looking into it.

I also opened a Jira ticket with Bitbucket support ( https://support.atlassian.com/requests/BBS-196964 ). The response there was

"I checked further on your request and currently, we do not have this feature available, and the workaround is the same as you have pointed out, i.e. giving user the permission to the repository after which the Fork option is available to the user."

I cannot really believe this explanation. E.g. my repo ( https://bitbucket.org/rpgframework-cloud/shadowrun6-eden/src/master/ ) had 14 forks without that I ever needed to give read permissions.

However, as a result of my bug report, a feature request for being able to fork public repos has been opened: BCLOUD-22390 - Public repository not having Fork option

Cheers,
Stefan

JayBean

Very odd bug, I have a large (300+ forks) public repo and this has also stopped working for me.

Testing it with a different account also has the same results as others where they dont have the option to fork anymore

Stefan Prelle

There is a open bug ticket now - we are expected to Vote and Watch

Stefan Prelle

The bug has been fixed now with BCLOUD-22395

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