start and finish release

[Alexandre LOUBEYRES]

Is there a way to start and finish a release directly from the Bitbucket website just like git-flow?

Start release is the a new branch from develop.

Finish release is more complicated:

• merge the release branch into master
• merge the release branch into develop
• create a tag in master with the version number from the release branch name

[Daniil Penkin · Accepted solution]

Hello @Alexandre LOUBEYRES,

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any ready-to-use solutions for this. You can use a combination of branching model and Bitbucket Pipelines to achieve that, but it involves quite some scripting. Specifically, you can configure a build for your master branch that would merge it to develop and create a tag, as you described. Release process would be triggered by merging a pull request into master.

You might also want to set up branch permissions to protect your master branch from manual updates.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Daniil