Uhm… will the ability to set another branch as the reference for your branch be available on CE? …No. There aren’t branches in CE. (Why do I have the sense that I’m missing something here?)
Oops, sorry for the confusion—I’m aware branches aren’t supported in CE, but in our setup (still on 7.9 LTS), we use the branch name as the sonar.projectVersion for our scans. I was hoping this new feature might fill the gap created by the removal of the ability to set an arbitrary version label as new code period, but it looks like it’s irrelevant for us.
I’m still rooting for a later 8.x to restore this removed feature, as in 7.x and earlier:
Thanks for your answers anyway, @ganncamp!