REST API to create and delete branch

[Asipu Pawankumar]

Please help me with the APIs to 

• Create Branch
• Delete Branch

[Caroline R]

Hi, @Asipu Pawankumar! Welcome to the community! 

You can run the following request to create a branch using API:

curl https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/{workspace}/{repository}/refs/branches 
-s -u username:AppPassword -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" 
-d '{
"name" : "{new_branch_name}",
"target" : {
"hash" : "main"
}
}'

"main" should be the existing branch or commit hash from where you want to create a new branch.

And in order to delete a branch, you can run the following request:

curl --request DELETE -u username:AppPassword https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/{workspace}/{repository}/refs/branches/{branch_name}

You can access the following links to find these endpoints:

• Create a branch:

  • https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/bitbucket/rest/api-group-refs/#api-repositories-workspace-repo-slug-refs-branches-post

  • https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/resource/repositories/%7Bworkspace%7D/%7Brepo_slug%7D/refs/branches#post

• Delete a branch:

  • https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/bitbucket/rest/api-group-refs/#api-repositories-workspace-repo-slug-refs-branches-name-delete

  • https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/resource/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs/branches/{name}

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

Kind regards,
Caroline

[Asipu Pawankumar]

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[Kube Net]

Hi,

What Kind of option needs to be used for creating and deleting branches?

[Alex Xu]

non cloud , local host bitbucket , how do we create branch ? and merge to master ?