Cross-repository pull requests in Bitbucket Server and Data Center
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Summary
Pull requests can be created between two different repositories, as long as they belong to the same hierarchy.
Repos in the same hierarchy are those repos related to each other through forking.
This means cross-repo pull requests can be created between a fork and its upstream/parent/ancestor repo(s) and vice versa.
Note that there can be several levels of forks, up to a maximum depth of 5 (see: Repo cannot be forked. Fork hierarchies are limited to a maximum depth of 5)
For example:
- original-repo.git is created
- original-repo.git is forked to create fork-1.git
- fork-1.git is forked to create fork-2.git
- fork-2.git is forked to create fork-3.git
- fork-3.git is forked to create fork-4.git
- fork-4.git is forked to create fork-5.git
All of the repos above belong to the same hierarchy, so cross-repo pull requests can be created between them.
For example, a pull request can be created from original-repo to fork-5:
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There is also a feature request to support pull requests between repositories in a project:
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