Extend pull request text search to include branch names

[sahil trambadiya]

Currently, the pull request search bar in the Bitbucket UI only matches text from the title and description of a PR. This means if a user searches for a branch name (e.g., hotfix/NOX-986), the PR is not found unless the branch name is manually included in the PR title or description.

Requested Enhancement:

• Include source branch name and destination branch name in the scope of the pull request text search.

• This way, searching for feature/abc-123 or hotfix/xyz directly finds the relevant pull request, even if the branch name is not mentioned in the PR title/description.

Benefits:

• Makes it easier and faster to locate PRs by their branch.

• Reduces reliance on teams manually adding branch names into PR titles.

• Improves developer workflow in repositories with many active branches and PRs.

[Akriti Sagar]

Hi Sahil, that’s a great suggestion. Currently PR search only looks at titles and descriptions, so branch names aren’t included. Adding source/destination branches to the search scope would really improve workflows — I’d recommend raising this in the Product Ideas portal so the team can track it.

[Theodora Boudale]

Hi Sahil and welcome to the community!

Thank you for your detailed suggestion. I can create a feature request in our issue tracker, I would just like to ask for clarification on the following before I do so:

• Are you looking for this feature in the search Pull requests page of a workspace (https://bitbucket.org/<workspace-id>/workspace/pull-requests/), of a repo (https://bitbucket.org/<workspace-id>/<repo>/pull-requests/), or both?
• On the pull requests page of a repo, there is a dropdown allowing you to filter for target branch. If your request concerns the pull request search of a repo, would you still like us to extend the PR text search scope to include branch names, or would it be more convenient to have an additional dropdown for filtering by source branch?

Kind regards,
Theodora