Bitbucket failing to checkout after PR gets new commits

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Issue

Updating an existing Pull Request with additional commits leads to broken builds of the Pull Request, because Jenkins tries to check out a non-existent ref in git.

You will see an error in your build similar to this:

[Bitbucket] Build result notified
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git checkout -f *****************************" returned status code 128:
stdout:
stderr: fatal: reference is not a tree: *****************************

	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1924)
	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$800(CliGitAPIImpl.java:71)
	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$9.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2214)
Caused: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not checkout *****************************
	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$9.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2237)
	at jenkins.plugins.git.MergeWithGitSCMExtension.checkout(MergeWithGitSCMExtension.java:146)
	at jenkins.plugins.git.MergeWithGitSCMExtension.decorateRevisionToBuild(MergeWithGitSCMExtension.java:112)
	at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.determineRevisionToBuild(GitSCM.java:1023)
	at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1116)
	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep.checkout(SCMStep.java:109)
	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScmFlowDefinition.create(CpsScmFlowDefinition.java:130)
	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.multibranch.SCMBinder.create(SCMBinder.java:120)
	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.job.WorkflowRun.run(WorkflowRun.java:246)
	at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
	at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:405)
Finished: FAILURE

Environment

Resolution

In investigations this issue is limited to environments that use Bitbucket Enterprise. This is caused by a missing configuration in Jenkins.

  1. Navigate to Manage Jenkins -> Configure System -> Bitbucket Endpoints

  2. Under your Bitbucket Server settings, locate the Call Can Merge checkbox.

  3. This setting will need to be toggled on.

Tested product/plugin versions

Bitbucket Branch Source Plugin version 2.5.0

References

Reported Issue JENKINS-45997