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Change an environment’s parent

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All environments default to having another environment as their parent. If you branched the environment from another, its parent starts as the environment it was created from. If you pushed a branch through Git or a source integration, the parent defaults to the default environment.

To change the environment’s parent, follow these steps:

  • Select the project where you want to change the parent.
  • From the Environment menu, select the environment you want to change.
  • Click Settings.
  • In the row with the environment’s name, click Edit .
  • Select a Parent environment.
  • Click Save.

Run the following command:

platform environment:info -e <CHILD_ENVIRONMENT_NAME> parent <PARENT_ENVIRONMENT_NAME>

So if you have the environment new-feature and want to change its parent to main, run the following:

platform environment:info -e new-feature parent main

If you’re not using a source integration, you can also set a parent for your environment when pushing changes to it. To do so, run the following command:

git push -o "environment.parent=PARENT_ENVIRONMENT_NAME"

Learn more about how to trigger actions on push.

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