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Refs

The refs resource allows you access branches and tags in a repository. By default, results will be in the order the underlying source control system returns them and identical to the ordering one sees when running "$ git show-ref". Note that this follows simple lexical ordering of the ref names.

List branches and tags

GET /2.0/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs

Returns the branches and tags in the repository.

By default, results will be in the order the underlying source control system returns them and identical to the ordering one sees when running "$ git show-ref". Note that this follows simple lexical ordering of the ref names.

This can be undesirable as it does apply any natural sorting semantics, meaning for instance that refs are sorted "branch1", "branch10", "branch2", "v10", "v11", "v9" instead of "branch1", "branch2", "branch10", "v9", "v10", "v11".

Sorting can be changed using the ?sort= query parameter. When using ?sort=name to explicitly sort on ref name, Bitbucket will apply natural sorting and interpret numerical values as numbers instead of strings.

OAuth scopes required: 
repository

Request

Path parameters
repo_slug Required

string

This can either be the repository slug or the UUID of the repository, surrounded by curly-braces, for example: {repository UUID}.

workspace Required

string

This can either be the workspace ID (slug) or the workspace UUID surrounded by curly-braces, for example: {workspace UUID}.

Query parameters
q

string

Query string to narrow down the response as per filtering and sorting.

sort

string

Field by which the results should be sorted as per filtering and sorting. The name field is handled specially for refs in that, if specified as the sort field, it uses a natural sort order instead of the default lexicographical sort order. For example, it will return '1.1', '1.2', '1.10' instead of '1.1', '1.10', '1.2'.

Example

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curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <access_token>' \
  --header 'Accept: application/json'

Responses

A paginated list of refs matching any filter criteria that were provided.

Content typeValue
application/json

Paginated Refs

List open branches

GET /2.0/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs/branches

Returns a list of all open branches within the specified repository. Results will be in the order the source control manager returns them.

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    ```
    $ curl -s https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/atlassian/aui/refs/branches?pagelen=1 | jq .
    {
      "pagelen": 1,
      "size": 187,
      "values": [
        {
          "name": "issue-9.3/AUI-5343-assistive-class",
          "links": {
            "commits": {
              "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/atlassian/aui/commits/issue-9.3/AUI-5343-assistive-class"
            },
            "self": {
              "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/atlassian/aui/refs/branches/issue-9.3/AUI-5343-assistive-class"
            },
            "html": {
              "href": "https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/aui/branch/issue-9.3/AUI-5343-assistive-class"
            }
          },
          "default_merge_strategy": "squash",
          "merge_strategies": [
            "merge_commit",
            "squash",
            "fast_forward"
          ],
          "type": "branch",
          "target": {
            "hash": "e5d1cde9069fcb9f0af90403a4de2150c125a148"