Control Freak - Commit Checks and Jira Hooks for Bitbucket
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Key highlights of the app"A must-have app!" Validates all pushes, merges, and web UI file edits to ensure they comply with your corporate Git policy
A pre-receive githook to ensure better commit msgs
- Enforce a rebase, squash, or git flow policy if you want!
- Avoid repositories with bad defaults ("main" can be deleted!)
- Run a Gerrit workflow ("Needs Work" PRs can't merge)
- Supports regex like YACC & ScriptRunner
Never see another missing Jira ticket ref / ID
- Define protected branches using Bitbucket's branching model
- Can check Jira issue status, assignee, or better yet, any arbitrary JQL
- Options: can ignore merge commits, submodule updates, clean rebases & cherry picks
Helpful block messages keep developers productive
- Rejection messages include specific steps to fix the problem
- Example: block large files and suggest LFS
- Empowers developers to fix their mistakes
- Simple architecture: no external webhook or post-receive triggers
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More details
Control Freak is a collection of push and merge hooks to reject commits based on pre-configured rules. Available rules include:
- Enforce JIRA linking for git commit messages (similar to YACC but better!)
- Branch naming policy
- Block large files
- Block deletes / rewrites / force-pushes of important branches
- Enforce a rebase or squash workflow
- Block self-approvals on pull-requests
- Author / committer name and email checks
- Block empty commits
- Block foxtrot merges
Configuration can be applied per-repo, per-project, or globally. Rules can be applied per repository type (regular vs. personal vs. fork). User and Group based exemption lists let service accounts, bots, and power users avoid the checks when necessary.
Our checking logic is optimized to run at most two "git rev-list" commands per push or merge, no matter how many rules you have enabled.
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Resources
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Get the .jar file downloaded to your system
App documentation
Comprehensive set of documentation from the partner on how this app works
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Privacy and Security
Privacy and security questionnaire has been filled by the partner
Privacy policy
Atlassian's privacy policy is not applicable to the use of this app. Please refer to the privacy policy provided by this app's partner.
Partner privacy policySecurity program
This app is not part of the Marketplace Bug Bounty program.
Version information
Version 2025.03.19•for Bitbucket Data Center 7.0.0 - 9.6.0
- Release date
- Mar 19th 2025
- Summary
- 5 fixes
- Details
5 fixes:
- REST endpoint now offered via /rest/control-freak/1.0/config/${project}/${repo} (note: old REST api location still works, but doesn’t work with HTTP access tokens since Bitbucket versions 8.9.22 or newer, 8.19.12 or newer, and 9.3.2 or newer).
- Branch-name-must-match-Jira now only checks LAST jira ref in branch name.
- commit-message-length control fixed - now applies to all new pushes, and grandfathers older commits correctly.
- Two enhancements:
a.) commit-message-title-length control
b.) look for FIRST Jira ref only option- - - - -
Since v2024.07.28, Control-Freak is now a paid app. More information here: https://bit-booster.com/licensing-change/
- Payment model
- Paid via Atlassian
- License type
- Commercial - no charge