title: bitbucket how to return branch from "merged" into "active"
body: <p>i had <code>master</code> branch (with the production version)</p>
  
  <p>i had <code>test</code> branch for the development needs</p>
  
  <p>decided to make <code>master</code> for the development needs</p>
  
  <p><code>test</code> for the pre production tests on real server equal for production</p>
  
  <p><code>prod</code> branch for the code passed <code>test</code> branch - really production code</p>
  
  <p>What i did through bitbucket interface:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>from the <code>master</code> branch was created <code>prod</code> branch (to have in it current production version of the code)</li>
  <li>then i merged <code>test</code> branch into the <code>master</code> (to have in <code>master</code> my current development)
  at this moment bitbucket decided that <code>test</code> and <code>prod</code> branches not required anymore and marked them as "merged" and removed them from the "active" branches list, BUT i need them !!!</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>as a solution i see following:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>create <code>test</code> branch from the current <code>master</code> - since they are equal at the moment</li>
  <li>on my local PC from the local <code>master</code> create branch <code>prod</code> and push it to the bitbucket (i think when i was cloning repository i wasnt influenced by the .gitignore, right ? so my local <code>master</code> has the state of the <code>origin/master</code> before merge)</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>please answer me if I'm right about the solution and have another question:</p>
  
  <p>is there a way to restore my branches from the "merged" to "active" by means of bitbucket in case this happen again ?</p>
  
  <p>P.S.: may be i shouldn't do anything with them, because they are still available in pull request dropdowns, so i can merge other branches with them and if i do so, they (<code>prod</code> and  <code>test</code> branches) again appear in the active branches list ?</p>