How to access full source of old commit in BitBucket?

Question

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?

Answer 1

You can view the source of the file up to a particular commit by appending ?until=<sha-of-commit> in the URL (after the file name).

Answer 2

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.

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Answer 4

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.