Clash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP

How to access full source of old commit in BitBucket?

Hate to have to ask this on the flow, but for the life of me, I can't figure out or find the documentation on how to access the source of an old commit in the new Bit Bucket format. Is this even possible anymore? So frustrated!

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I understand you want to download an older version via the BitBucket web interface without using a Mercurial/Git client.

Check this related question. On the comments, someone says that there is no way to do that. Fortunately, that's not entirely true.

By navigating on BitBucket project pages, I found no link to download an arbitrary version. There are links to download specific tags, in the format:

https://bitbucket.org/owner/repository/get/v0.1.2.tar.gz


But by tweaking a bit the url above, changing the tag name by the commit hash, like:

https://bitbucket.org/owner/repository/get/A0B1C2D.tar.gz


You can actually download a specific version.

As mentioned by Rakka Rage in a comment, replacing .tar.gz by .zip works too.

.tar.gz

.zip

I was trying to figure out if it's possible to browse the code of an earlier commit like you can on GitHub and it brought me here. I used the information I found here, and after fiddling around with the urls, I actually found a way to browse code of old commits as well.

When you're browsing your code the URL is something like:

https://bitbucket.org/user/repo/src/


and by adding a commit hash at the end like this:

https://bitbucket.org/user/repo/src/a0328cb


You can browse the code at the point of that commit. I don't understand why there's no dropdown box for choosing a commit directly, the feature is already there. Strange.

https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/src/8cbfd51

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/src/8cbfd51

hg clone -r8cbfd51 https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/src/

https://bitbucket.org/user/project/commits/0000000000000000000000000000000000000000?at=master

commits

src

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Just in case anyone is in my boat where none of these answers worked exactly, here's what I did.

Perhaps our in house Bitbucket server is set up a little differently than most, but here's the URL that I'd normally go to just to view the files in the master branch:

https://<BITBUCKET_URL>/projects/<PROJECT_GROUP>/repos/<REPO_NAME>/browse


If I select a different branch than master from the drop down menu, I get this:

https://<BITBUCKET_URL>/projects/<PROJECT_GROUP>/repos/<REPO_NAME>/browse?at=refs%2Fheads%2F<BRANCH_NAME>


So I tried doing this and it worked:

https://<BITBUCKET_URL>/projects/<PROJECT_GROUP>/repos/<REPO_NAME>/browse?at=<COMMIT_ID>


Now I can browse the whole repo as it was at the time of that commit.

For the record, you can also toy around URLs this way :

When browsing the latest source, you have something like :
https://bitbucket.org/my/repo/src/latestcommithash/my.file?at=master

https://bitbucket.org/my/repo/src/latestcommithash/my.file?at=master

Simply change the commit hash and remove the GET parameter :
https://bitbucket.org/my/repo/src/wantedcommithash/my.file

https://bitbucket.org/my/repo/src/wantedcommithash/my.file

Got to +1 @Hein A. Grønnestad above : it's all working, really wondering why there's nothing in the GUI to use it.

Great answers from a couple of years ago. Now Bitbucket has made it easier.

Tag the Commit you want to download (as mentioned in answer by Rudy Matela).

Then head over to Downloads and click the "Tags" tab and you'll get multiple options for download.

You can view the source of the file up to a particular commit by appending
?until=<sha-of-commit> in the URL (after the file name).

?until=<sha-of-commit>

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