Does the BitBucket Free level support merge checks and repository hooks?

[Yaniv Brener]

I am looking to create a Pre-Receive and/or RepositoryMergeCheck hook to run on a repository and block a merge to master branch if an error is thrown. I am reading all the tutorials and it seems like I should have a section called "Merge Checks" in my Repository Settings and an ability to add a "Custom" check, or a section called "Hooks" where I can add these. Not able to find them anywhere.

This is the tutorial link:

https://developer.atlassian.com/server/bitbucket/how-tos/hooks-merge-checks-guide/

[Ulrich Kuhnhardt _IzymesCo_ · Accepted solution]

Hello Yaniv,

Welcome to the community.

The document you're referring to is Bitbucket server only.

For Bitbucket cloud no such hook or merge check exists.

The app developer community has been passionately communicating this missing feature to the Atlassian Bitbucket team:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-19885

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-10471

Please vote and watch these tickets.

We have come across the same problem when we created Workzone for Bitbucket Cloud. The app works around this by taking control over when the PR is ready to merge by checking bitbucket merge restrictions AND merge checks configured in the app. 

Hope that helps!

Best, Ulrich

// Izymes

[Yaniv Brener]

Hi Ulrich, thanks for the response! That makes a lot of sense and I added my votes - would definitely like this feature. 

Looking at Workzone, I see the usefulness of it to automate some merging & other behavior, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't support custom merge conditions/commands, correct? 

Like running a particular git diff command, or a Django migration check like `python ./manage.py makemigrations --dry-run`, and blocking the code merge if failure...

[Ulrich Kuhnhardt _IzymesCo_]

Thanks for your feedback, Yaniv.

I understand that you would like to add custom merge conditions and commands.

Have you thought of adding a Bitbucket pipeline or Bitbucket pipeline runner for the PR source branch and have Bitbucket or Workzone control the result of the pipeline runner outcome, i.e. check for successful builds?

[Yaniv Brener]

I think that's where I'm landing, I'll be looking into pipelines. Thanks!!