Hello here, From my sonarcube dashboard, I am seeing the coverage for master branch which is the main branch. is there any way to change the main branch to ‘develop’? master branch is for prod which can’t be deleted. Our all the features development is based on develop branch. So I am wondering is…

Yes, the menus and API are still available. The problem is that you must have at least one branch analyzed to define the default/main branch. You cannot do it before that branch has been analyzed. In your case, it seems you just created the project but did not analyze it yet.

Thanks for jumping back in. So is this a catch 22 situation? I am trying to analyze the project for the first time, but it is located on a branch not called master. But from what you said I can’t change that branch name from master to something unless until it is analyzed first. The analysis is f…

[image] trexx00: So is this a catch 22 situation? I am trying to analyze the project for the first time, but it is located on a branch not called master. No it is not. You must simply analyze the branch that you want to be your main without any sonar.branch.name parameter. Let’s say your mai…

Thanks, I’ll need to dig in further. I am not specifying the sonar.branch.name parameter. I’m running in AzureDevops and pointing to a SonarQube server. The sonar plugins in AzureDevops must be setting it under the covers somewhere. The entry in the .yml file is just: task: SonarQubeAnalyze@4

I missed the information that you were using Azure DevOps. It’s an important point. With Azure DevOps the SonarQube Prepare Analysis task automatically sets the sonar.branch.name property based on an (hopefully meaningful) internal logic. You don’t control this. The logic is the following: There…

Thank you Olivier, I was able to analyze the branch following your steps. However the “Branches & Pull Requests” option still doesn’t show up in the Administration menu. Anything else needed to get it to show up ? [image]

Hello @trexx00 , The fact that you have no “branches and pull requests” menu is odd. Can you confirm which version of SonarQube you run ? Can you confirm that you did analyze some code ? (I see all your metrics to 0 in the dashboard I have a doubt). Can you provide a screenshot of your full proje…

Hello @trexx00 , Thanks to a colleague we spotted why you don’t have the branches and PR menu. It’s simply because you apparently run a SonarQube Community (free) Edition - We can tell that from the edition displayed in the footer of your first screenshot. The Branch and PR analysis feature is avai…

How to change the main branch in SonarQube?

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trexx00 (Tyrone Jones) January 28, 2020, 5:44pm 11

Hmm. Tried changing the prepare task from msbuild integrated to standalone. Slightly different report, but same error. Is there any way to bypass/uncheck the branch parameter causing the issue ?

Thanks

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How to change the main branch in SonarQube?

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