Change of Default Branch

You may change the default branch on your VCS provider, and sometimes that change won't be reflected on CircleCI. This can cause issues with some features that rely on knowing which branch is the default, such as Github status checks and Build Only Pull Requests.

To view the current default branch, you can use the API endpoint under default_branch:
https://circleci.com/api/v1.1/project/{VCS}/{ORGNAME}/{PROJECT}/info

Example:
https://circleci.com/api/v1.1/project/github/CircleCI-Public/circleci-cli/info  

GitHub

We will check the default branch and update it for your project on each commit pushed. If you change the default branch it will be updated on the next commit push to CircleCI

Bitbucket

At the moment, to update the default branch in a Bitbucket project, we need to manually refresh the project's information on your behalf. Please submit a ticket to Support.