How to disable automatic branch cleanup with bamboo yaml specs?

Question

I have a plan where the branch settings are defined as:

branches: &branch_settings
  create: for-new-branch
delete:
after-deleted-days: 3
after-inactive-days: 90
link-to-jira: true

And I want to override this for certain branches and disable the automatic cleanup. I have tried:

branch-overrides:
  - ^(whatever.*)$:
branches:
<< : *branch_settings
        delete: never

But this doesn't work.

From the UI I can uncheck a checkbox (Clean up plan branch automatically) in the specific plan branch configuration, but I don't know how to define it in the yaml spec and I didn't find it in the documentation.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Shashank Kumar · Accepted Answer

Hello pBogey,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

You can use the below examples to disable the expiry for branches using YAML specs

branch-overrides:
  -
    integration-branch:
      branch-config:
        disable-expiry: false
  -
    feature/.*:
      branch-config:
        disable-expiry: false

In this example I am overriding the branch properties for two branches one with a name of integration-branch and another any branch starting with the name of feature, you can probably modify this to meet your requirement.

**please don't forget to Accept the answer if your query was answered**

Regards,

Shashank Kumar