Can't use Workspace Access Token to create a branch subject to branch permissions

Question

I have a script that creates branches in Bitbucket in numerous repos.  Until now I've been using a dedicated Bitbucket User to do this.  I recently switched to using the new Workspace Access Token feature.  This worked until I tried to create a branch in a repo with Branch Permissions that limit write access to certain branch types to a single group (which that dedicated user I'd been using previously has been in).

Using the Access Token, which has the "repository:write" scope, the push to create the new branch fails with `remote: Permission denied to create branch`.  I believe it's due to the branch permission.  Should this work?  Is there a way to give the Auth Token user permission here?

Nathan Hitchman_0qitoi · Answer

Hi, did anyone find the way around this? I have the exact same problem.

Documentation mentions nothing.

Martin Karing_e0zruz · Answer

I encountered the very same issue. I'm trying to push changes to a repository using a workspace access token, but I'm blocked by the branch restrictions. Those branch restrictions are required for the normal operations done by the developers, the script is required to bypass those.

I tried to get this working using the access tokens, but failed so far. I tried adding the access token to the branch restrictions as exception, both by the user interface of bitbucket and by the API of bitbucket. Both methods failed.

Jay Seletz_tdgw99 · Answer

Just did some targeted testing.  A branch permission restricting edit will prevent both creating a branch matching the restriction, as well as pushing changes.  How can an Access Token be used in this case?