Bitbucket Server watch repository?

[Eric Pederson]

Is it possible to watch a repository in Bitbucket Server the way you can with Bitbucket Cloud?   I want to get notified (with details and diffs) on all commits, whether or not they are related to a pull request.

Or can you only get notifications for pull request-related actions?

Also is it possible to get notifications for your own pull-request pushes?

Thanks,

[Scott Moore · Accepted solution]

The ability to watch repositories was just released with Bitbucket 5.10: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/bitbucket-server-5-10-release-notes-948214779.html

[Scott Moore]

...and if you use Bitbucket Cloud, you already have it.

[Eric Pederson]

Just by coincidence we are in the midst of upgrading Bitbucket to 5.10 right now and I tried out the notification support. 

I’m glad that Bitbucket is finally providing this feature.  It’s got a ways to go before it’s fully baked but it's on the right track!

Things off the top of my head:

• I should get my own commit emails, and the commit message should be in the subject
• I would like it so every user doesn't have to opt in.  In our Notifyr configuration all notifications go to a specific address.

If you take a look at the Notifyr Documentation and JIRA it will give you an idea of all the use cases that it supports and that people have been asking for.

[Ulrich Kuhnhardt [IzymesDev]]

Eric,

the Bitbucket Notifyr can do this for you - https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/nl.stefankohler.stash.stash-notification-plugin/server/overview

The Atlassian Marketplace has a plethora of great core product enhancements - always a good place to start the search for a solution.

Hope it helps - Cheers Ulrich 

[Tom Chamberlain]

Notifyr carries a heafty price tag for something which comes for free in Bitbucket Cloud and even GitHub. I am suprised at how many features you must pay for on BitBucket compared to a hosted GitHub!

[Eric Pederson]

Besides that, the Notifyr developer has not been responding to bug reports since March.  We are paying customers and have a number of outstanding bugs in basic functionality which have not been even replied to in the Notifyr JIRA.

I got a survey a while back from Atlassian about a notification feature that led me to beleive that they are at least thinking about it.   I hope they come out with something built-in so we can move off Notifyr.

[Perf0rmancePr0jected]

Go to "..." to the right of "Clone" and choose "Manage Notifications" and "Watch this Repository".

[olisteadman]

This option presumably only appears if you have upgraded to 5.10 or have a plugin like Notifyr installed by administrator. I don't see it.

[Eric Pederson]

Right.   Thanks.

I found the JIRA for it: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BSERV-4203

It was created in 2013 and there are 75 votes for it.