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[kstiles31]

I am a solo dev, the way i have structured my branches is as follows:

I work locally, then commit to Development

I merge Development into Testing, YML will deploy to testing env

I merge Testing into Staging, YML will deploy to staging env

I merge Staging into Production, YML will deploy to production env

This process has been working well for me for over a year.

Recently I created a new branch Feature because I needed to put the latest commit on Development on hold for a while. Now when I merge (and go through my normal waterfall process), it appears Feature, Testing and Staging are a single branch and none of my pipelines run.

Happy to provide additional information, I am hoping to understand what happened, and get back to 'normal' please see screenshots from bitbucket and sourcetree:

*Additionally, I recently added a new user (green) and removed a user (blue) in an attempt to separate personal and business repos.

[Mark C · Accepted solution]

Hi @kstiles31

Thank you for reaching out to the community.

Based on the commit history, it started after the merge commit on 2025-04-04.

Could you confirm the merge strategy used in that merge commit?

Regards,
Mark C

[kstiles31]

It looks like I merged Testing into Production, not sure why I did that (more than likely a mistake), but usually I would not, I would / should merge Testing into Staging, then Staging into Production.

[Mark C]

No worries, @kstiles31

Moving forward, I think you can follow your workflow again.

For your Pipelines trigger, however, you mentioned it is not firing builds anymore, could you share your Pipelines trigger, please? Is it default or using branches?

Regards,
Mark C

[kstiles31]

The pipeline trigger is branches.

I believe the issue was not selecting the option to create a commit even if a fast forward was available.

When selecting that option everything worked as intended.

I am not sure what a fast forward is, or why all of a sudden that would be available (perhaps an upgraded version of SourceTree), but it appears that was the issue.