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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- Git Graph for Jira (free)
- Commit Graph for Bitbucket (free)
- PR-Booster for Bitbucket (paid)
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Comprehensive set of documentation from the partner on how this app works
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Privacy and Security
Privacy policy
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This app is not part of the Marketplace Bug Bounty program.
Version information
Version 2025.08.29•for Bitbucket Data Center 7.0.0 - 9.6.5
- Release date
- Aug 30th 2025
- Summary
- Yet another attempt at perfecting our Jira DC vs. Jira Cloud probing logic
- Details
Version v2025.08.29 contains 1 important fix:
1.) Since v2025.08.1 we’ve been trying to handle the Jira JQL search deprecation (see: https://developer.atlassian.com/changelog/#CHANGE-2046 ). We recently discovered the “/rest/api/2/serverInfo” endpoint, and this endpoint doesn’t require any authentication, so we think it should finally work for all Control Freak deployments. To see that endpoint for yourself: https://bit-booster.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/serverInfo ! :-)
Background: the Jira DC and Jira Cloud rest endpoints for doing JQL queries no longer behave identically, so Control-Freak needs to figure out which type of Jira it's talking to before it builds up its JQL request. And you can’t just look at the Jira URL (e.g., my-company.atlassian.net), because some companies customize that to use their own domain (e.g., jira.my-company.com).- - - - -
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