Once you have your stages/environments configured, you might find yourself needing to change the branch that is tied to it.

This can happen when you are trying to test an update on staging that might not be on master (assuming you have staging connected to master).

Update the Source Branch

To change the branch that is tied to a stage, head over to your app settings and select the stage.

Select stage

Select Edit branch.

Click Update Stage Source

And select the branch that you’d like to auto-deploy to this stage.

Select branch to auto-deploy

This will automatically start creating a build in the stage with the selected branch.

Auto-Deploy Options

By default, auto-deploying for the prod or production stage is turned off and is turned on for all other stages. This is a good practice since it is better to review your code and infrastructure changes before deploying to production.

However, you might run in to cases where you’d like to configure the auto-deploy setting. To do so, go to the stage settings and enable Auto-Deploy.

Enable auto-deploy for production

Just as the case above, this allows you to select the branch you’d like to auto-deploy. You can also disable auto-deploying at any time in the future by disabling the Auto-Deploy button.

Disable auto-deploy for production

You can also trigger a one-off deployment by using the manual deploy option.