Something that I learned Today – I was working a CodePipeline pipeline which gets the source codes from a CodeStar connection that was built to a Bitbucket Cloud workspace. And in the following stage, I needed to get the git commit history of that repository.
As shown below CodePipeline does not keep the git metadata about the repository by default. To achieve what is required, I need to use the “Full clone” as the output artifact format.

In CDK, the setting is named as codeBuildCloneOutput. Here is a example: