Allow creating branches

[t0msk]

Hello,

I use Bitbucket Cloud with my team, how is possible to allow creating a branches for members, they have only read permission.

I don't want to give a write permission, because according this site https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/using-project-permissions-776639801.html  if you have a write permission you can "Merge pull request" and I don't want members to be able to merge changes to master branch.

They permission should be only clone, pull, push (to non-master branches), create branches.

Thank you

[jredmond]

You're looking at the wrong documentation - that's for Bitbucket Server, which is not the same as Bitbucket Cloud. Have a look at https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/branch-permissions-385912271.html instead; you can use that to control who can push to master or use pull requests to merge to master.

To answer your original question, though: read-only users cannot create branches in the UI, because creating a branch involves writing to the repo.

[t0msk]

Ah thanks, so I need to give them write access, but set branch permissions for master branch only to specific members who can merge to master, right?

[brunodantas00]

@jredmondThanks for your reply. I'm also facing a scenario like this, where we have:

master branch - where only the admin group can commit or create pull requests

development branch - where the developers can create branches, develop the features and create a pull request to that branch

The problem is, when i grant to developers group access to write ON DEVELOPMENT BRANCH they can also commit directly to MASTER.

Any ideas how to solve this problem? 

* We are using teams, inside of that team we have admin and developers,

* We are using bitbucket cloud

Thanks