How to run old branches with new commits automatically?

[Bianca Morton]

We have certain branches that have gone down in priority so dropped out of bamboo branch build. Most users do not have access to manually add a branch so when they finally pick it up again the branch is no longer available to them. Is there a way to automatically add the branch back when there are new commits to it?

[Krystian Brazulewicz]

I believe this problem can be solved by configuring "Automatic branch management": select "Do not delete inactive plan branches" for "Inactive branches".

[Bianca Morton]

as it stands we already too many branches. definitely dont want to have even more branches. i want to change the delete stale branches option to something like 7 days and want the "reactivated" branches to come back into bamboo with new commits

[Krystian Brazulewicz]

You might want to create feature request on our public issue tracker jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM

[Bianca Morton]

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-18209 

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Not by default. You will have to manually add the branch back. To make it worse, Bamboo has a bug that deletes the newly added branch because it was already cleaned up once. I think the bug is fixed in the latest versions but I haven't got a chance to test yet.

You might have to create a plugin that adds the Bamboo branch plan on fresh commits, maybe with different name depending on your version, if you really want to get this going!

[Bianca Morton]

I dont see the bug you are talking about. When adding manually it works just fine but theres only 1 person in the company that has enough permissions to add old branches back.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-16505