Bitbucket

Add Git connection

To add Bitbucket personal app password in Brainboard, you first need to generate it in your Bitbucket account.

Steps to generate a personal app password on your Bitbucket account.

1. Go to your Bitbucket app passwords page.

2. Click on the top right icon and then select Personal settings:

   • Got to App passwords accessible from the left bar options.

   • Click on Create app password.

     
3. Add a name and grant read-write access for:

   • Projects.

   • Repositories.

   • Pull requests.

     
4. The token is generated, you can copy it to add to Brainboard:

   

To add the generated token in Brainboard:

1. Go to the Git integration settings page.

2. Click on Integrations

3. In the section Personal connections Click on Add connection

4. Select Bitbucket tab

   
5. Add your credentials in the displayed window:

   • Name of the token. This is only for Brainboard, it will not be used when you do a pull request.

   • The URL of your Bitbucket server: by default Brainboard uses https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0 but you can set your own URL.

   • Username: this is not your email. You get it from your personal Bitbucket account settings.

     
   • Password: the app password generated from your Bitbucket account.

6. Then click on Save and close button.

7. Brainboard will verify if the credentials are valid:

   1. If they are valid, Brainboard displays a success message and you can see the integration now in the Git connection page

      
   2. If they are not, you'll receive an error about what is wrong. For example:

      

      

How to use

Please refer to the page How to use to understand how you can use your git connections whether you want to do a pull request and import your code from Git.

Edit or delete connection

1. Go to the Git integration settings page.
2. Click on Integrations

3. In the section Personal connections Click on Bitbucket integration that you want to edit or delete

4. Select the action you want to perform from the view