How can I manipulate a branch that is not the triggering branch in a pipeline?

[Christof Koegler _Gaims GmbH_]

I have the following scenario:

Whenever file A changes in branch 'develop', I want to copy these changes to branch 'main'.

I added a step to my pipeline which triggers whenever file A changes in branch 'develop', but apparently Bitbucket only clones the triggering branch, so 'main' is not available in the pipeline.

I have tried to fetch, pull, checkout -b, etc. but to no avail. I also tried re-cloning the whole repository, but have run into permission issues.

How can I go about this?

[Syahrul · Accepted solution]

Hey @Christof Koegler _Gaims GmbH_ 

Welcome to the community.

I believe you are missing the 'main' branch because, by default, the Bitbucket pipeline only does a shallow clone of your repository, which only includes the triggered branch.

To fix this, simply add full clone depth in your YAML which should trigger the full clone as mentioned in our guide here. 

clone:
depth: full # include full clone
pipelines:
default:
- step:
name: Cloning
script:
- echo "Clone all the things!"

Cheers,
Syahrul

[Christof Koegler _Gaims GmbH_]

Thanks, @Syahrul!

Cheers,
Chris