prevent merge PR in bitbucket

Question

I want to prevent from bitbucket to merge PR if there are not enough approvers. I know that this can be done with the premium user but I don't have one so I am trying to find a workaround.

So I was looking into hooks that might do the trick. However, as fa r as I understand githooks in my repo won't do the trick because they are client hooks. Am I right about it?

Also, I don't have access to the bitbucket server to add their server-side hooks.

can it be done with some webhook using a Jenkins job?
Any helpful reference, tip or other solution are welcome.

Answer 1

As you mentioned you will need one of the following:

Admin user

Admin user will allow you to set up the required approvers

Access to the file system

Also, I don't have access to the bitbucket server to add their server-side hooks.

Once you have access to the filesystem you can add your hooks.

Git hooks

Once more you are right, local git hooks runs on the client-side.

Here is a sample for server-side hook which you will need to use if you was able to pre-receive hook

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Trying to manage the PR form Jenkins might work but its a wrong approach since anyone with the right access can merge the PR form within the bitbucket (Web, source tree, cli etc).

Here is one way to do it with Jenkins:
https://mohamicorp.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/209059847/Triggering+Jenkins+on+new+Pull+Requests