Connecting Bitbucket workspace to new JIRA site

Question

Hi there,

I am looking at the feasibility of moving a JIRA project onto it's own site and would need to reconnect a bitbucket workspace to the new JIRA site.

If the new JIRA project on the new site is an exact copy of the original will Bitbucket links (Pull Request/Commit history) be retained/restored when the workspace is connected to the new site?

TIA

Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Answer

@James Howell I am sorry, I don't have first experience with this migration and it is too risky to do guesswork. What I wrote above is pure theory.

If you have a paid plan, then Atlassian Support should be able to answer those questions.

James Howell_24eq8x · Answer

Thank you!
Can you confirm if you are referring to migrating a bitbucket workspace or a JIRA project in your steps?

I have successfully duplicated the JIRA project on a new site but it is not linked with the original Bitbucket instance so I do not have any commit/PR information.

I don't believe pull request information will be retained if I duplicate the repo to another workspace and I am hesitant to attempt to link the original bitbucket workspace to the new JIRA project in case the links cannot be restored with the original.

Do you know if a bitbucket instance is disconnected from JIRA and reconnected if this will retain links?

Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Answer

Bitbucket links contain the Bitbucket workspace slug, project slug, pull request ID, commit hash, etc. which will not change when you move a Jira project to a new site. So it is 90% sure that the old links will just work.

But you can do this experiment:

* Migrate the project, but do NOT delete it from the old location
* Test if the links are working
* If they are (likely), delete the project from the old location
* If they aren't, you can just delete the migrate project and think about an alternative approach