How to determine what branch of plan is running?

[Murphy Meng]

It is useful (vital for me) to tell the current branch of plan that is running. I used to use this variable: bamboo.repository.branch.name. But documentation says it is to be deprecated; and anyway, it does not always works. I mean, in some plans, it works fine, in others, it always contains value "master" no matter which branch is running, auto triggered or manually.

I also tried those variables:

bamboo.planRepository.position.branchName
bamboo.planRepository.position.branch
bamboo.planRepository.position.branch

But they always return "master" no matter which plan branch is running.

Ref: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/bamboo-variables-289277087.html

Why do I need to know what branch is running?

When the plan is triggered by a git commit, it should run with source code under the same git branch that contains this commit. It will not make sense, if a plan always run git branch master code, when commits are all happen under feature branches right? Also different branch can have different roles, like release branch will do deployment but other branch doesn't. In your plan config, you need do different things manually according to what branch is being run.

Does this make sense? What is the reliable way to get the current plan branch?

[Daniel Santos]

Hi Murphy,

The variable bamboo.repository.branch.name is deprecated but the variables bellow (which you already cited) should do the same job.

bamboo.planRepository.<position>.branchName
bamboo.planRepository.<position>.branch

Please keep in mind that those variables will depend on the repository type used and their order, where there is more than one. The <position> part should be changed accordingly to: 1 (for the first repository in the list), 2 (for the second), and so on).

e.g.
bamboo.planRepository.1.branch

Some questions that might help us moving forward:

• Can you share the Bamboo version you have?
• May I also ask you what is the repository type was configured when it returned master for branches?
• Have you checked the repository branch configured for the branch returning master?

I've run some tests with Bamboo 6.6.2 using Bitbucket repo and all my tests returned the branch as expected.

[Vijay Reddy]

Hello @Daniel Santos 
I've a question regarding the variable, I'm trying to access a specific branch name within a specific plan repository. So, is this a valid variable?

${bamboo.planRepository.1.branchName.1}

Thnq