Manually fail pipeline for incorrect branch

[Greg Mascherino]

Atlassian has recently updated pipelines to allow manually triggering any build task from any branch. This means that users can run the master branch pipeline from a feature branch for example. How do I prevent manually running tasks for the incorrect branch? There are currently no pipeline permissions nor is there anyway to limit a specific build to a specific branch.

[Philip Hodder]

Hi Greg,

You can check the branch that's running at the start of your build and fail from there.

For example:

- if [ "$BITBUCKET_BRANCH" != "master" ]; then exit 1; fi
- ... #the rest of your script

 Thanks,

Phil