What does Approve button do with changeset on bitbucket.org?

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andrybak picture andrybak · Oct 27, 2012 · Viewed 11.3k times · Source

When using Bitbucket for source control, there's an "Approve" button that appears at the upper right of the commit page:

Bitbucket Approve Button

It appears to generate an activity message in the repositories overview page:

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Is that all it does? What is the intended purpose of that button? Is it just a social feature?

Answer

shakhawat picture shakhawat · Apr 28, 2016

One use case is when a pull request gets a certain number of approvals, then it gets merged, either automatically or manually.

Thus it becomes easy to filter all the pull requests which are ready to be merged.

It's quite a common feature in code review tools. I have found it to be almost identical in GitLab too.

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