Disable new Merge button that appears in the Jira integration

[Kent Muller]

Recently a new Merge button has started appearing in the Development section in Jira issues where there is an associated feature branch in Bitbucket.

The button appears late, a number of seconds after the issue has loaded and as a result the entire view moves down and instead of clicking to view a pull request, you end up clicking Merge.

How can we remove this Merge option, but leave the previous Branch, Commits, Pull Request options in place?

[Rasmus · Accepted solution]

There is a related Issue raised for the Jira Cloud Project you can upvote/follow:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-93484

[Kent Muller]

Thanks for posting this. I would encourage anyone seeing this to upvote this issue.

[Richard Bostock]

You can disable it in your personal settings. It's provided by Jira Labs.

I similarly found that it was very easy to click on this when I was trying to follow the link to the PR itself whilst the page was still loading... 

[Kent Muller]

Thanks for the tip however this didn't work for me unfortunately. The Merge button still appears after a short period.

[Richard Bostock]

I found this worked for a day or so and then the button sadly reappeared. I've joined the others on adding to the registered issue shown above.

[Kent Muller]

It looks as though changes have been made and the Merge button is now appearing below the existing links so when it loads late, the regular links aren't being pushed down anymore.

[jorcutt]

The number of accidental merges this created in a short period of time for us is crazy.  Developers move fast and having a UI that shifts with a merge option that appears exactly where another link was displaying is silly.  If this take a long time, put in a skeleton and reserve the real estate so that people don't accidentally click on it.

We are recommending that everyone disable the new transition experience in our organization.

[Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_]

Hi @Kent Muller and welcome,

for my knowledge, you can't disable that specific button. It will appear for users that have write permission on the linked repo on bitbucket side. It is an useful feature for developers.

Hope this helps,

Fabio

[Kent Muller]

Thanks for you response.

While it may be a useful feature, having it load late is the issue here.

The space should either be reserved so the UI doesn't move after loading, or the entire section shouldn't load at all until everything is ready.

Developers are streamlined and focussed. Having a UI that is slow to catch up to the human makes for an undesirable user experience.

[Shaun Dishman]

It is an useful feature for developers

I am a developer, and it is the opposite of useful; it caused me a MAJOR headache today by breaking our builds and causing me to interrupt planned work to go fix what Jira screwed up.

It might be useful, if it was implemented with sensibility, but some mind-boggling decisions were made here:

• It merges all PRs associated with the issue - even ones that are not yet approved!
• There is not even a confirmation for such a drastic action

This is easily the worst, most regressive capability I've seen added to Jira in the 10+ years we've been using it.