How to determine if the branch was removed/deleted and recreated in the GIT using Stash ?

Ashok Kumar Sri

We have a confusing situation, a branch seemed like removed in GIT repository and subsequently the bamboo  deleted one of its branch plans on Bamboo after 14 days of time as we have enabled delete branches option.

The development team claims that they did not remove any branch, how could bamboo delete its plan ? Branch isn't active.  We tried reflog, but it did seem like a much help. I've tried to check the audit log on Stash to learn if there was any removal done on branch. But we could not locate or find any trace.

Can you please help us on this ? Thank you in advance.

 

Michael Heemskerk

Hi Ashok, 

Bitbucket Server does record all push activity (but it does not make it available in the UI yet), so you could query the database to see how and when the branch has been updated by pushes. The following should return all pushes that updated the branch master in the repository yourrepo:

select a.created_timestamp, u.name as username, repo.name as repo_name, ref.*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           from sta_activity a, sta_repo_activity ra, repository repo, sta_repo_push_ref ref, sta_normal_user u 
where a.id=ra.activity_id and a.user_id=u.user_id and ra.repository_id=repo.id and ref.activity_id=a.id and ref.ref_id='refs/heads/master' and repo.name='yourrepo';

Note that a deleted branch should show up as a row with to_hash set to 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000