For Pull Requests - Dont Push the Accept/Deny Buttons to the Left

[Kevin McCray]

Upon opening a pull request URL for review, the deny/approval buttons shift to the left a few seconds after page load.

Why is this bad? If I know I want to immediately DENY a pull request from getting merged, my cursor will click the APPROVE button because it got shifted to where the DENY button was half a second ago. I can luckily catch this quicker than our CI/CD and DENY it again immediately after.

This happens because the Merge button is initially a spinner on page load (smaller width), then becomes wider, pushing the buttons to the left.

[Ben]

Hi @Kevin McCray 

May I know which browser you are using? I can't reproduce the issue you've described - the buttons are not shifting for me, they stay in the same place when I navigate to the PR after opening it.

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

[Kevin McCray]

Hi Ben,

My mistake, it wasn't the merge button causing the push, its the yellow hazard "merge is blocked" icon which appears after page load.

[Ben]

Hi @Kevin McCray 

I've created a PR with a merge conflict for testing purposes - again, the yellow Merge button stays in the same place and does not shift positions at all. Unfortunately - I'm still unable to reproduce the issue.

May you please let me know which browser & version you're using - and see if you can reproduce this in other browsers? A screen recording would be helpful as well.

Regards,

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

[Kevin McCray]

Maybe the correct term is "merge blocking issues" ?

Here is lined up screenshot right upon page load (top -- no yellow hazard) and one after page load (bottom -- has yellow hazard inserted and pushes everything to the left). 

I am running the latest Chrome on a Mac M2 Pro.

[Ben]

Hi @Kevin McCray 

Based on the screenshot you've shared - it appears you're using Bitbucket Server/DC - not Bitbucket Cloud. Am I correct?

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

[Kevin McCray]

You're right! My mistake, this is not bitbucket cloud. I assumed we were using cloud since we recently migrated to Jira / Confluence cloud. 

We're on Atlassian Bitbucket v8.19.3

[Ben]

That's okay @Kevin McCray - thank you for confirming. I'll go ahead and add the server tag to this post so that it shows up in the server/DC community for further support :)