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  1. Bitbucket Data Center
  2. BSERV-3141

Allow Pull Requests to source from a tag as well as a branch

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      Atlassian Status – May 2021

      Bitbucket Server/Data Center 7.13 (release notes) adds tags to the source selector when creating pull requests, and also enables the "Create pull request" button on the compare view when the source is a tag. When merging a pull request whose source is a tag, the "Delete ... after merging" checkbox will be disabled. Only source branches can be deleted on merge.

      The target selector still does not allow tags, and on the compare view the "Create pull request" button is still disabled when the target is a tag. This will likely never change, because merging a pull request modifies the target and Git tags are intended to be immutable.

      The source and target selectors still do not allow specific commits, and that's also unlikely to ever change. Pull requests generally include some amount of rework, which isn't possible if the pull request starts from a specific commit. Allowing it would also require substantial changes to both our API and the implementation code, both of which are heavily coupled to working with refs. Feel free to share use cases, if you have them, but the likely response will remain to either create a branch or tag on the commit you want to merge and use that.

      Best regards,
      Bryan Turner - Principal Developer
      Bitbucket Data Center

      Original suggestion

      Some branch maintenance requires the ability to pull from an annotated tag (such as in the case of a QA certified commit) to downstream branches (our branchmasters use stash for convenience). Please consider including a tab in the "source" combo box choice for tags as well as branches.

              bturner Bryan Turner (Inactive)
              b5cb527bfd90 Matthew Korich
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