See all 5 Pull request merge strategies in Bitbucket Cloud

[Victor Escutia]

According to https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/pull-request-merge-strategies-844499235.html, there are 5 different merge strategy options available for merging pull requests, however I can only see 2 of them from my Bitbucket Cloud account:
-Merge commit --no-ff
-Squash --squash

Does Bitbucket Cloud only support 2 out of 5 supported strategies in Bitbucket Server 4.9 or am I missing something?

Thank you beforehand,
Victor

[vinaycareem]

Not having a `rebase + merge --ff-only` option is a deal breaker for me. Could this please be prioritized?

[Maroun Maroun]

It's been a year, any updates on this?

[YS]

Looks like Azure DevOps supports this:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/pull-requests-with-rebase/

[Markus Torstensson]

gitlab too

[Miguel Diaz]

Hi guys!

Just a friendly reminder that this option would be quite useful and that actually has been sitting here for quite a while, can we expect to have this option implemented sometime in the (hopefully, near) future?

We are missing the `rebase` option as well.

Thanks!

[Michael Fasani]

This is SO BASIC. You have this in Jira Server just port it already.
https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver050/pull-request-merge-strategies-913474859.html

[Andrew Luca]

[Patrick Proulx]

Ya, we're considering moving away from BitBucket because of the lack of rebase.

We were looking at moving to Jira for Project Management because of its close integration with Bitbucket, but we're holding off for now until we figure out what we do with this.

[Matthias Gebhardt]

Same here, please integrate: rebase + merge --ff-only, otherwise Azure DevOps will be our new friend

[Geoffroy Tremblin]

Hi, 

Any update about it ? 

It is really disturbing with the branch permission's check "Reset approvals when the source branch is modified" because our teams need to manually rebase their jobs before merging and reapprove the pull requests. 

You thinks that's normal ? Me NO !

[Tim Pettersen]

Hi Victor,

You're correct. Sorry for the confusion. There are variances in the feature set offered by the Cloud and Server versions of Bitbucket, and in this case Server is slightly ahead of Cloud in terms of functionality. For now, Bitbucket Cloud currently supports only a subset of the merge strategies available in Bitbucket Server. 

cheers,

Tim

[pullrequesteval]

Any update on this suggestions ?

There is a 4 years old ticket about this issues !!!

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/6106/provide-the-option-to-use-git-merge-ff

[weynhamz_cit]

Any updates on this, I really want the rebase + merge --no-ff option available.

[Ruben Vandeginste]

Any updates on when this will be available on BitBucket Cloud? We also use the "rebase + merge --no-ff" option to merge feature branches.

[vinaycareem]

Not having a rebase + merge --ff-only option is a deal breaker for me. Could this please be prioritized?

[Evan Wu]

Is it still not a thing on the cloud? This is a very key feature for big project

[Deleted user]

This feature would save me a couple hours each week of checkout out branch, rebasing, and then push --force before finally merging.

[Rodolfo Ortiz]

hi @[deleted] could you elaborate on how you do rebase & merge? I understand you check out the PR branch, rebase master onto it, check out master, rebase the PR branch onto master and then push --force?

[mafa]

@Rodolfo Ortiz with the PR branch being checked out:

git fetch --all
git rebase origin/master
git push -f

You only rebase the feature branch on top of master, it doesn't make sense to rebase master on your feature branch.

[Rodolfo Ortiz]

Got it @mafa . And then, in order to merge, you would only need to do this to achieve a rebase&merge right?

git checkout master
git merge --no-ff PR_branch_being_checked_out
git push

[mafa]

Yes exactly

[Adam Cameron]

> "For now,"

It's _now_ 2021. How long is this "for now" period supposed to last? Asking for a friend.

[Daniel Marra]

Almost 4 months into 2022 and its still missing. but I have fancy new UI that noone asked for...

[Markus Torstensson]

My team refuses to accept merge commits which prevents us from using pull requests.

Is there some way I can mark the PR merged without actually merging it?

Also, is somebody from Atlassian actually monitoring community threads?

Is it possible to build a plugin to support it?

[Andrew Hill]

Tim said (in February 2017)

.. For now, Bitbucket Cloud currently supports only a subset of the merge strategies available in Bitbucket Server. 

cheers, Tim

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Given that this is now March 2024 I think the answer that isn't a gas light attempt is "we have no plans to implement any extra PR strategies" 

(Unless someone from Atlassian wants to suggest otherwise, but I have seen nobody from Atlassian even suggest this could be a roadmap item)