Connecting Bitbucket workspace to new JIRA site

[James Howell]

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_]

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:

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

[James Howell]

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_]

@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.