bbUseDevelopmentBranch ignored after automerge

[fhoffmann-sparqs]

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Bitbucket 41.9.0

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I have a private Bitbucket repo with a renovate.json in the develop branch but none in master. Normally, renovate uses develop as base for it's PRs, since I have set bbUseDevelopmentBranch to true in the config.js for the renovate bot. But after automerging renovate switches over to master. Since there is no renovate.json in the master branch, it closes all open PRs and creates one to configure renovate for the repo.

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Logs

INFO: Autodiscovered repositories

       "length": 1,

       "repositories": ["sparqs/typo3-vue-base"]

 INFO: Repository started (repository=sparqs/typo3-vue-base)

       "renovateVersion": "41.9.0"

 INFO: Dependency extraction complete (repository=sparqs/typo3-vue-base, baseBranch=dev)

       "stats": {

         "managers": {

           "bitbucket-pipelines": {"fileCount": 1, "depCount": 3},

           "npm": {"fileCount": 1, "depCount": 49},

           "renovate-config-presets": {"fileCount": 1, "depCount": 1}

         },

         "total": {"fileCount": 3, "depCount": 53}

       }

 INFO: PR automerged (repository=sparqs/typo3-vue-base, branch=renovate/node-22.x)

       "pr": 696,

       "prTitle": "Update dependency @types/node to v22.15.33"

 INFO: Restarting repository job after automerge result (repository=sparqs/typo3-vue-base)

 INFO: Repository started (repository=sparqs/typo3-vue-base)

       "renovateVersion": "41.9.0"

 INFO: git fetch completed (repository=sparqs/typo3-vue-base)

       "durationMs": 2548

 INFO: Branch created (repository=sparqs/typo3-vue-base, branch=renovate/configure)

       "commit": "ab660d3ca792c08977869de8dd36b1845176233c",

       "onboarding": true

 INFO: Dependency extraction complete (repository=sparqs/typo3-vue-base, baseBranch=dev)

       "stats": {

         "managers": {

           "bitbucket-pipelines": {"fileCount": 1, "depCount": 3},

           "npm": {"fileCount": 1, "depCount": 49},

           "renovate-config-presets": {"fileCount": 1, "depCount": 1}

         },

         "total": {"fileCount": 3, "depCount": 53}

       }

 INFO: Onboarding PR created (repository=sparqs/typo3-vue-base)

       "pr": "Pull Request #701"

 INFO: Autoclosing PR (repository=sparqs/typo3-vue-base)

       "branchName": "renovate/prettier-3.x",

       "prNo": 700,

       "prTitle": "Update dependency prettier to v3.6.1"

 INFO: Autoclosing PR (repository=sparqs/typo3-vue-base)

       "branchName": "renovate/vite-7.x",

       "prNo": 699,

       "prTitle": "Update dependency vite to v7"

 INFO: Repository finished (repository=sparqs/typo3-vue-base)

       "cloned": true,

       "durationMs": 63303

 INFO: Renovate was run at log level "info". Set LOG_LEVEL=debug in environment variables to see extended debug logs.

[jamietanna]

cc @setchy is this something you've seen before?

[setchy]

@fhoffmann-sparqs - confirming that for this repository you have develop set as your main branch

To confirm, you can either:
1 - Visit https://bitbucket.org/{{your-workspace}}/{{your-repo}}/admin

2 - Visit https://bitbucket.org/{{your-workspace}}/{{your-repo}}/branches.

There should be two labels main and development next to your develop branch (controlled by the admin setting above)