How to I create a cross repository pull request?

Question

I have two repositories that frequently get changed together. Code in Repo B is dependent on Code in Repo A.

A pull request across both repositories needs to be raised at once to make sure that the pipelines execute with all the code required within the pipelines? Does Bitbucket have this feature?

Thanks.

Peter Manoharan_r7kep8 · Answer

Hi Caroline, thanks so much for this.

Peter.

Caroline R_g9ynyc · Answer

Hi, @Peter Manoharan!

Thanks for getting back to me! It's not possible to create a pull request across repositories. Pull requests are only possible within a repo or to the parent (if it’s a forked repository, not sure if it's your case).

However, if you would like to execute the Pipeline in one repository based on a commit/Pipeline build in another repository, you can achieve it using the "Bitbucket trigger pipeline" pipe in your pipeline's final step.

I hope this helps, but do let me know if you have any questions.

Kind regards,

Caroline

Peter Manoharan_r7kep8 · Answer

Hi @Caroline R ,

Thanks for your response. our use case is that we have a number of projects that have dependency projects in other repositories.

Both the main repository and the dependent repository will frequently have changes that go hand in hand and therefore need to be checked in together.

The dependency will need to compile on it's own. The main repository will only compile with the right version of the dependency.

We have pull requests that trigger pipelines to ensure code quality which means that commits across projects are tied together otherwise the project with dependencies will fail to complete and run tests.

Hope that makes sense?

Thanks for your help with this.

Peter.