How to change short lived branch to long live branch and make it main branch?

[whiterabbit99 (Lee)]

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• Azure DevOps yaml pipelines
• Want App_Release_Branch to be long-lived and main branch of this project
• Tried changing “Long-lived branches pattern” to App_Release_Branch like in screenshot but no effect
• See screenshot
  
  

[ganncamp (G Ann Campbell)]

Hi,

Sorry, but that functionality just isn’t available.

The closest you could come would be to

• delete your short-lived branch
• change your long-lived branch naming convention
• (re)analyze your branch to get it into SonarCloud as a long-lived branch.

Unfortunately, you’re not going to be able to make it the main branch, even after re-creating it as a long-lived branch.

 
Ann

[whiterabbit99 (Lee)]

ok thanks, so how do I get the App_Release_Branch to be long lived?

I changed the pattern as shown in the screenshot and have done more builds since but it stays in the short lived branches

[ganncamp (G Ann Campbell)]

Hi,

You can’t change a branch’s type, once established. You’re going to have to delete it and then re-analyze.

 
HTH,
Ann