'Automatic merge back to develop in BitBucket
I previously worked on a project using the Gitflow Workflow and BitBucket. When a PR was merged into a release branch then it was automatically merged back into develop. This does not happen in BitBucket on the project I am working on now and I cannot find any documentation on BitBucket regarding this. There is documentation on automatic branch merges but that seems to be to release branches only. Did BitBucket ever do this or was I somehow mistaken?
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In my experience with Git Flow, automating the back-merge of release into develop would be considered abnormal. You can do it constantly if you wish, but the only time release (or main) needs to be merged back into develop is after release is merged into main, or when a new change on the release branch is so important that develop can't wait for it it to reach main first.
My assumption is that no Git SCM tool would do any type of automatic branch merging by default. It does look like BitBucket has the ability to do this if you wish to configure it. I suspect the previous project you worked on was using that exact feature.
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