Can't detect branches for plan error even though the Automatic branch management is disabled
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Problem
Automatic branch management is disabled.
The Plan Summary page have the error "Can't detect branches for plan PROJ-PLAN"
The following appears in the atlassian-bamboo.log
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2016-05-31 16:39:15,101 DEBUG [11-BranchDetectionBackgroundThread:pool-19-thread-2] [BranchDetectionServiceImpl] Detecting already existing branches for plan PROJ-PLAN
2016-05-31 16:39:15,463 INFO [11-BranchDetectionBackgroundThread:pool-19-thread-2] [DefaultErrorHandler] Recording an error: Can't detect branches for plan PROJ-PLANCause
Bamboo detected a branch to be initialized for that Plan in the database and try to connect to the repository to initialize it.
Resolution
Shutdown Bamboo
Backup database for rollback purposes
Search for the problematic data with the following SQL query depending on the build key:
1SELECT * FROM VCS_BRANCH WHERE CHAIN_ID=(SELECT BUILD_ID FROM BUILD WHERE FULL_KEY='PROJ-PLAN');The problematic data is the result with NAME that contain "initialize.chain.branches".
Delete the problematic data
Always back up your data before making any database modifications. If possible, test any alter, insert, update, or delete SQL commands on a staging server first.
1DELETE FROM VCS_BRANCH WHERE CHAIN_ID=(SELECT BUILD_ID FROM BUILD WHERE FULL_KEY='PROJ-PLAN') AND NAME like '%initialize.chain.branches%';Restart Bamboo
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