How to access full source of old commit in BitBucket

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I can t figure out or find the documentation on how to access the source of an old commit in the new Bit Bucket format  Is this even possible anymore

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I understand you want to download an older version via the BitBucket web interface without using a Mercurial/Git client.

Check this related question. On the comments, someone says that there is no way to do that. Fortunately, that's not entirely true.

By navigating on BitBucket project pages, I found no link to download an arbitrary version. There are links to download specific tags, in the format:

https://bitbucket.org/owner/repository/get/v0.1.2.tar.gz

But by tweaking a bit the url above, changing the tag name by the commit hash, like:

https://bitbucket.org/owner/repository/get/A0B1C2D.tar.gz

You can actually download a specific version.

As mentioned by Rakka Rage in a comment, replacing .tar.gz by .zip works too.

User · Answer

Great answers from a couple of years ago  Now Bitbucket has made it easier   Tag the Commit you want to download  as mentioned in answer by Rudy Matela    Then head over to Downloads and click the  Tags  tab and you ll get multiple options for download

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Search it for a long time  and finally  I found how to do it   Please check this image which illustrates steps  enter image description here

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I was trying to figure out if it s possible to browse the code of an earlier commit like you can on GitHub and it brought me here  I used the information I found here  and after fiddling around with the urls  I actually found a way to browse code of old commits as well   When you re browsing your code the URL is something like   https   bitbucket org user repo src    and by adding a commit hash at the end like this   https   bitbucket org user repo src a0328cb   You can browse the code at the point of that commit  I don t understand why there s no dropdown box for choosing a commit directly  the feature is already there  Strange

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For the record  you can also toy around URLs this way    When browsing the latest source  you have something like   https   bitbucket org my repo src latestcommithash my file at master  Simply change the commit hash and remove the GET parameter   https   bitbucket org my repo src wantedcommithash my file  Got to  1  Hein A  Gr  nnestad above   it s all working  really wondering why there s nothing in the GUI to use it

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The easiest way is to click on that commit and add a tag to that commit   I have included the tag  last commit  with this commit Than go to downloads in the left corner of the side nav in bit bucket   Click on download in the left side Now click on tags in the nav bar and download the zip from the UI   Find your tag and download the zip

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You can view the source of the file up to a particular commit by appending   until  lt sha-of-commit gt  in the URL  after the file name

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I know it s too late  but with API 2 0 you can do  from command line with   curl https   api bitbucket org 2 0 repositories  lt user gt   lt repo gt  filehistory  lt branch gt   lt path file gt    or in php with    data   json decode file get contents  https   api bitbucket org 2 0 repositories  lt user gt   lt repo gt  filehistory  lt branch gt   lt path file gt    true      then you have the history of your file  from the most recent commit to the oldest one       pagelen   50   values                  links              self                href    https   api bitbucket org 2 0 repositories  lt user gt   lt repo gt  src  lt hash gt   lt path file gt                       meta                href    https   api bitbucket org 2 0 repositories  lt user gt   lt repo gt  src  lt HEAD gt   lt path file gt  format meta                      history                href    https   api bitbucket org 2 0 repositories  lt user gt   lt repo gt  filehistory  lt HEAD gt   lt path file gt                             commit              hash     lt HEAD gt             type    commit            links                self                  href    https   api bitbucket org 2 0 repositories  lt user gt   lt repo gt  commit  lt HEAD gt                           html                  href    https   bitbucket org  lt user gt   lt repo gt  commits  lt HEAD gt                                         attributes              path     lt path file gt           type    commit file          size   31                     links              self                href    https   api bitbucket org 2 0 repositories  lt user gt   lt repo gt  src  lt HEAD 1 gt   lt path file gt                       meta                href    https   api bitbucket org 2 0 repositories  lt user gt   lt repo gt  src  lt HEAD 1 gt   lt path file gt  format meta                      history                href    https   api bitbucket org 2 0 repositories  lt user gt   lt repo gt  filehistory  lt HEAD 1 gt   lt path file gt                             commit              hash     lt HEAD 1 gt             type    commit            links                self                  href    https   api bitbucket org 2 0 repositories  lt user gt   lt repo gt  commit  lt HEAD 1 gt                           html                  href    https   bitbucket org  lt user gt   lt repo gt  commits  lt HEAD 1 gt                                         attributes              path     lt path file gt           type    commit file          size   20               page   1     where values   links   self provides the file at the moment in the history which you can retrieve it with curl  lt link gt  or file get contents  lt link gt     Eventually  from the command line you can filter with    curl https   api bitbucket org 2 0 repositories  lt user gt   lt repo gt  filehistory  lt branch gt   lt path file gt  fields values links self   in php  just make a foreach loop on the array  data   Note  if  lt path file gt  has a   you have to convert it in  2F   See the doc here  https   developer atlassian com bitbucket api 2 reference resource repositories  7Busername 7D  7Brepo slug 7D filehistory  7Bnode 7D  7Bpath 7D

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Just in case anyone is in my boat where none of these answers worked exactly  here s what I did    Perhaps our in house Bitbucket server is set up a little differently than most  but here s the URL that I d normally go to just to view the files in the master branch   https    lt BITBUCKET URL gt  projects  lt PROJECT GROUP gt  repos  lt REPO NAME gt  browse   If I select a different branch than master from the drop down menu  I get this   https    lt BITBUCKET URL gt  projects  lt PROJECT GROUP gt  repos  lt REPO NAME gt  browse at refs 2Fheads 2F lt BRANCH NAME gt    So I tried doing this and it worked   https    lt BITBUCKET URL gt  projects  lt PROJECT GROUP gt  repos  lt REPO NAME gt  browse at  lt COMMIT ID gt    Now I can browse the whole repo as it was at the time of that commit

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