bitbucket-pipelines, pull-request vs merge

[Joseph Balden]

I am trying to use bitbucket-pipelines to test and in a separate step deploy,

When a pull-request is created I want to run unit tests. I see that I can do this with the pull-requests feature.

When the code is merged, I want to create a zip and deploy (copy) code to s3

How do I trigger a step when the code is merged?  Not when the pull-request is created.

Do I need to use tags?

[Philip Hodder]

Hello Joseph,

For the workflow you're mentioning, you can use branch pipelines.

For example:

pipelines:
  branches:
    master:
      - step:
          script:
            - # Create zip and deploy to s3.
  pull-requests:
    feature-branch-*:
      - step:
          script:
            - # Run unit tests

In this configuration, the zip creation and deployment will only happen when a new commit is introduced to the master branch. i.e. Whenever a feature branch is merged to master. 

It is possible to use tags. But that doesn't sound like it's a part of your current workflow, so it isn't necessary to introduce if you don't need them.

Does that work for you?

Thanks,

Phil

[Max DeCurtins]

@Philip Hodder The branch pipeline on `master` isn't really a solution for us, because we can't just run the pipeline willy-nilly on any commit to `master`; we need to know something about how that commit originated. Consider:

When a PR from a `release/*` branch is merged into `master`, I would like to run an action that:

1. Deletes the `release/release-{#}` branch (yes, I know PRs offer the option to close the source branch on merge, but I don't want to leave that up to a human to remember to check that option)
2. Increments a repository variable representing the release number,
3. Creates a new `release/release-{#}` branch

I can't hook this action to any commit to `master`, because a hotfix could come in that gets deployed to `master`, and I wouldn't want that change to trigger the release branch-related workflow.

Any suggestions?

Thanks 

[Darius Bogdan]

@Max DeCurtins I am looking to do a flow similar to the one described by you. Did you find any solution?

[kr_rohit]

@Philip Hodder, any workaround to achieve this?