Glob patterns don't allow any expression to start with a star. Every expression that starts with a star needs to be put in quotes.
feature/*
Matches with feature/<any_branch>.
The glob pattern doesn't match the slash ( /), so Git branches like feature/<any_branch>/<my_branch> are not matched for feature/*.
feature/bb-123-fix-links
If you specify the exact name of a branch, a tag, or a bookmark, the pipeline defined for the specific branch overrides any more generic expressions that would match that branch. For example, let's say you specify a pipeline for feature/* and feature/bb-123-fix-links. On a commit to the feature/bb-123-fix-links branch, Pipelines executes the steps defined for feature/bb-123-fix-links and won't execute the steps defined in the feature/*.
If you specify a partial name along with the start symbol ( * ) of a branch, a tag or a bookmark, the pipeline defined for the specific branch overrides any more generic expressions that would match that branch. For example, let’s say you specify a pipeline for feature/bb-* and feature/bb-123-*. On a commit to the feature/bb-123-fix-links branch, Pipelines executes the steps defined for feature/bb-123-* and won’t execute the steps defined in the feature/bb-*.
' * '
Matches all branches, tags, or bookmarks. The star symbol ( * ) must be between single quotes.
This glob pattern doesn't match the slash (/ ), so Git branches like feature/bb-123-fix-links are not matched for '*'. If you need the slash to match, use '**' instead of '*'.
' ** '
Matches all branches, tags, or bookmarks. For example, it includes branches with the slash ( /) like feature/bb-123-fix-links. The ** expression must be in quotes.
' */feature '
This expression requires quotes.
' main ' and duplicate branch names
Names in quotes are treated the same way as names without quotes. For example, Pipelines sees main and 'main' as the same branch names.
In the situation described above, Pipelines will match only against one name (main or ' main', never both).
Try to avoid duplicating names in your bitbucket-pipelines.yml file.