Warn user when pushing to branch not listed in bitbucket-pipelines.yml

[dembryrfx]

Hi, My team and I work on static website projects which usually have "development" and "master" branches.  In some of them, bitbucket-pipelines.yml is configured so that it ONLY runs a build in specific branches.  When they try to push to other branches I want to give them some indication or warning, somehow.  My current hacky technique is to add a `default` section that triggers a build failure.  A simple example:

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        script:
          - |
            echo "BUILDS NOT CONFIGURED FOR THIS BRANCH; PLEASE MERGE INTO DEVELOPMENT" >&2
            exit 1 # trigger a build failure.
  branches:
    development:
      ...
    master:
      ...

The unfortunate thing about this is that it still spins up a Docker image which is wasteful and time-consuming.  I would rather issue a message of some kind to the unlisted branch pusher sooner and with more efficient use of resources.  Has anyone a better method?

[Ben]

Hi @dembryrfx 

Unfortunately, this is not possible in Bitbucket Cloud. We have a feature request to allow for hook support in Bitbucket Cloud that would handle your use case. I would recommend Watching and Voting for so that you increase its visibility with regard to customer demand and receive updates related to it:

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-10170 

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)