Apply Bitbucket pull request as a patch

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I've got a repo on Bitbucket that only I have write access to.

Someone forked that repo, made changes and issued a pull request to my repo from the fork.

How can I get that pull request as a git patch to apply temporarily to my repo for testing purposes?

The forked repo is private so I can't pull it down, and I wouldn't want to do that anyway.

On GitHub you can simply go to a pull request and add a .patch to the end of the url to download the patch. This doesn't work with Bitbucket.

No. I could ask him to edit the PR to target a different branch, but I'd still have to accept it to be able to pull it. — Nick Spiers, Oct 20 '13 at 21:43
Create a throwaway branch and ask him to edit the PR to that branch. Merge it, and if you don't like it, just delete (`-D`) the branch. Alternatively, explain to him that you're not going to merge code that you can't view, and ask him for read access to that branch. (One of the things I don't like about BitBucket.) — George Hilliard, Oct 20 '13 at 22:12
Not exactly ideal, but I guess if I have no other options... — Nick Spiers, Oct 22 '13 at 15:11

score 25 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 23 '20 at 20:32

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The Pull Request Patch is available through bitbucket API (despite there is no button to download it directly from the Pull Request page).

to access the Pull Request patch : https://bitbucket.org/api/2.0/repositories/GROUP/PROJECT/pullrequests/ID/diff

source: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-8323?focusedCommentId=2226612&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-2226612

edited Apr 23 '20 at 20:32

Nick Spiers

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answered Mar 25 '14 at 09:01

Lythom

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Ha, this is my created issue. Still waiting on them to put in that link but I guess I should have answered my own question. – Nick Spiers Mar 26 '14 at 10:40
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You can also create an actual patch (with commit metadata) by replacing `diff` with `patch` in the API URL – Whymarrh Jun 30 '15 at 11:53
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It says forbidden now :( – mangatinanda Nov 21 '18 at 07:24
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this solution seems no longer valid :( – Snake Sanders Feb 22 '19 at 11:42
Update Jira issue: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-8323 I can't believe 5 years later the status is "gathering interest" – Nick Spiers Apr 23 '20 at 20:29
Please adjust this answer, because it does not work. – Radoslav Ivanov Nov 30 '20 at 23:10
Almost 6 now. Nobody built a plugin to export a diff as a patch? – jschober Feb 24 '21 at 21:41

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 17 '21 at 12:27

For 7.x versions you might try these links based on info from https://docs.atlassian.com/bitbucket-server/rest/7.11.1/bitbucket-rest.wadl and https://docs.atlassian.com/bitbucket-server/rest/7.11.1/bitbucket-git-rest.html:

Pull requests: https://bitbucket.example.com/rest/api/1.0/projects/GROUP/repos/PROJECT/pull-requests/ID.patch

Commits: https://bitbucket.example.com/rest/api/1.0/projects/GROUP/repos/PROJECT/patch?until=COMMIT (the since= query parameter can also be tried for a starting commit).

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 06 '21 at 14:33

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Adding to Nick Spier's answer above:

You need to include an access token with your request otherwise you will get a permission error.

answered Nov 06 '21 at 14:33

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Apply Bitbucket pull request as a patch

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