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Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) from Atlassian offered a self-hosted source code management solution. The product is no longer available for sale, and support for existing licenses will end in 2024.
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Bitbucket Server, formerly known as Stash, is an essential tool for development teams seeking to streamline their coding cycle in a collaborative environment. It allows teams to take control of their projects and organize a portfolio of different products. Users find it easy to deploy and manage, whether on internal or managed infrastructure, on-premises or in the cloud. This provides peace of mind and equips developers with the necessary tools for development.
One of the key use cases for Bitbucket Server is version control within teams. It facilitates collaboration among cross-functional teams located in different time zones, ensuring everyone works on the same codebase. Development teams push their code to the Stash server, which undergoes review by the testing team before final approval. Upon approval, release engineering teams pull the code from the server and move it across various environments.
Stash seamlessly handles pull requests from JIRA issues into development and production branches, making it easy for teams to merge changes into the main codebase. It even supports builds for Java applications upon acceptance of a pull request into the development branch, further streamlining the development process. With its user-friendly UI and integration with JIRA, developers can effortlessly host code repositories, create and manage pull requests, and browse individual files and commits. Bitbucket Server serves as the primary version control system in many organizations, trusted by both operations and development teams.
Moreover, Bitbucket Server offers a centralized platform that improves collaboration among multiple teams and instills confidence in IT among internal clients. Each department retains control over specific sections of code repositories, ensuring clarity and ownership. The pull request process in Stash requires two approvers for every merge, ensuring code quality and minimizing errors.
Lastly, Bitbucket Server integrates seamlessly with other Atlassian products like Bamboo, JIRA, and Confluence for a streamlined continuous delivery and continuous integration CD/CI process. This integration enables development teams to work offline, commit changes, and collaborate effectively through pull requests. Bitbucket Server's versatility makes it the preferred solution for organizations facing limitations with other systems, such as branching issues.
Intuitive and User-Friendly Interface: Reviewers have consistently praised the product's intuitive and user-friendly interface, with many stating that it is easy to navigate and perform tasks quickly. This sentiment was shared by a majority of users. Easy Deployment and Platform Management: Users appreciated the product for its easy deployment process and efficient platform management capabilities. It provides a collaborative framework for the development cycle, which has been positively acknowledged by numerous reviewers. Seamless Integration with DevOps and ITSM Tools: The ability to integrate the product with different DevOps and ITSM tools has been highly valued by users. This feature allows for seamless workflow integration, as mentioned by several customers in their reviews.
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Restricted centralized user management: Some users have expressed dissatisfaction with Bitbucket Server's limitations on centralized user management, stating that it is not ideal for their needs. They feel that the platform should offer more flexibility in managing user permissions and access.
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Confusing technical issue resolution: Several reviewers have found it challenging to solve technical issues that arise from time to time, leading to confusion and frustration during troubleshooting. They would appreciate clearer documentation or better guidance within the platform to help them resolve these issues effectively.
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Lack of direct folder download in Stash: Users have suggested that Stash should allow direct download of entire folders instead of having to navigate inside each folder to download individual files, as this would improve efficiency and ease of use. This feature enhancement would save users time and effort when they need to download multiple files located within the same folder structure.
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Our organization uses BitBucket Server as our primary source control solution, across many different types of software - from front-end to back-end, or even to store configuration and documentation. It allows us to perform code reviews, link changes to Jira tickets, and facilitates enforcement of quality gates - all important in our increasingly remote workforce.
- Pull requests / code reviews are simple but effective - it's easy to discuss the changes and enforce quality gates (through integration with Bamboo)
- The access control model is fairly granular, with per-branch and per-action permission configuration options
- There are various plugins available to extend functionality, such as SonarQube
- You can't allow users to create new repositories without them being full admins of a whole project
- There's not a way to limit who can merge a pull request (e.g. allow only the author to merge) outside of branch permissions
- Some settings like default reviewers can't be easily copied to different repositories (without setting default reviewers at the project level, which we don't want to do because a single project has multiple team's code under it)
October 08, 2021
Excellent Collaboration Solution for IT Teams
Bitbucket is used mainly by the IT Application and Development team plus the IT Developer and Operations team. There are other departments using it, but with minimum interaction. It has helped a lot to produce better code, consistent deployments, testing and great collaboration with all the teams. Since we [started] using it, our internal clients' confidence in IT has improved.
- Project management
- Collaboration
- Testing
- Integration
- Better deployments
- Interface is not intuitive
Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) is used for some specific development units focused on software development for the business. Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) has helped the development teams to overcome how they control the coding cycle in a collaborative environment with more than one group of developers working on the same project. Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) allows the teams to handle the projects themselves and also to organize a portfolio of different products. Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) is easy to deploy and manage using the internal or managed infrastructure on-premises or cloud servers.
- Easy deployment and platform management
- Provides a collaborative framework for development cycle
- Allow integration with different DevOps and ITSM tools
- Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) should be evaluated for implementation based on the capacity of the environment ownership and support.
- Insights and analytics reports are basic.
- Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) as part of Atlassian tools has some restrictions for centralized user management.
March 14, 2020
A bucket for your git code!
Bitbucket Server is used as our main code repository for our development team. It is a distributed version control system so developers can still commit and track their changes even when they do not have an internet connection, and push the changes later when they are back online. Its pull request feature also lets developers to collaborate and review each other's work before changes are accepted.
- Simple and intuitive UI.
- Pull request for code review.
- Good integration with other systems such as Jira for issue tracking.
- Enforce rules on commit message format (although you can get this feature via 3rd party add-on), but this should be an out-of-the-box feature.
- Lack of reporting and graph features.
Currently, Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) is being used as the primary version control system in my organization. This means it is being used pretty standardly across both operations and development teams. This also means it is allowing multiple teams to collaborate on code as any version control system would within an organization.
- Bitbucket is, as far as things go, good at being a version control system. In look and feel, it's very much like GitHub with regard to structure and browsing code.
- Bitbucket Server has quite a few integrations out of the box that make it pretty quick and not very painful to integrate other systems (Jenkins for example).
- When restoring from backup, Bitbucket Server does not re-enable plugins that were once enabled. This means anytime you rebuild you are left to either go with enabling all of them or disabling all of them and waiting for other downstream systems to break.
- Permissions on repositories and projects are not very straight forward. From a user interface perspective, it's a little unclear the first time how to lock down things like pushing to master for some but not others, how to all others to merge pull requests (thus pushing to master) as long as it's not their own change, etc.
- Reliability is a real problem with Bitbucket Server. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, it will just decide to stop working and require a full restart of the application (which takes a fair bit of time). Being the primary version control system, this means there are quite a few people unable to complete their work while these issues are resolved.
February 04, 2019
Stash: The best place to host your code
We use stash to host our code repositories. We have many different repositories stored on their servers. We also use it to create and manage pull requests and browse individual files and commits to the code base.
- It picks up changes to your branches immediately.
- It's very easy to do a diff and compare your branch with another.
- Pull Requests are very easy to manage. You can set specific requirements so that a branch cannot be merged until a certain criterion is met.
- I love how easy it is to browse code in the entire repo.
- Maybe implement a slider on the top of the Pull Request where you could slide between commits to see what was changed (similar to Crucible).
April 13, 2017
Stash for GIT
We switched to stash from TFS across whole organization due some limitations that we facing at TFS, especially on branching. On top of that, my company is using some of Atlassian's other products as well such as Bamboo, JIRA and Confluence, and we wanted to integrate the process of CD/CI seamlessly so Stash is an ideal choice.
March 27, 2017
Functional but Free of Fun Extras
Our entire organization uses Stash for all code repositories. We store code in repositories specific to applications. Each department has control over a section of repositories. Some applications are spread across multiple repositories when they have deep collections of dependencies or scripts. We also use the pull requests system of stash for all code changes. Most if not all departments require two approvers for every pull request to be merged.
- Integrations with HipChat are solid, informative, and easy.
- Pull requests are easy to comment on, discuss, approve, deny, and merge. It has a very intuitive workflow.
- It's difficult to create flexible pull requests that might need to be approved by 4 people and others by only 1 person. All pull requests require the same number of approvers
- Maneuvering through the git-components of Stash to look at particular branches, diff branches, or view tags can be difficult, tedious, or impossible. Direct support for some more advanced git actions would be appreciated.
- There is no readme concept (like in GitHub) for a repository.
March 21, 2017
STASH and JIRA - Atlassian's must have
Stash is being used to handle pull requests from JIRA issues into our development and production branches. Also, it is configured to run builds for java applications whenever a pull request is accepted into development branch. It has a nice and easy UI. Also used to create branches directly if not attached to a JIRA issue. Its integration with JIRA is the big plus of this product.
- Integration with JIRA
- Easy to use
- Review and accept code changes
- More free plugins
- Hooks examples
- Better control of branches parents
November 11, 2016
Atlassian Stash - Emergence of User Friendly Version Control
Stash is used primarily for version control of different modules of codes within various teams at Fidelity Investments. Ours is a cross functional team geographically located in different time zones. The development team works on a piece on code, pushes the code onto the Stash server, which is then pulled by the testing team for review. Upon final approval, the release engineering team pulls the code from server and moves across various environments. Continuous availability of correct version of code is big business problem that gets solved because of the usage of Stash.
- Projects & Permissions - Stash keeps you and your developers productive by providing a way to structure your repositories and manage permissions via a simple, yet powerful user interface. Stash is very easy to use, manage & administer.
- Essentially Stash gives two versions of interfaces to work with.
- Stash Repository hosted on a server.
- Atlassian SourceTree.
- Atlassian Sourcetree is a tool to work with a code in stash. The two 'web' and 'desktop' versions make working with code user friendly, intuitive and comprehensive.
- Connectivity to JIRA - Stash keeps track of all issues associated with commits. Users can use Stash to quickly see all issues associated with a commit, or use the Source tab on JIRA issues for an aggregate view of all the code changes that are related to a specific JIRA issue. With this information available, your development team saves time when tracking particular bug fixes or improvements.
- I feel Stash should allow direct download of the entire folder containing various files of code. It is cumbersome to go inside a folder to download an sql file and then come back to the folder to download another.
- With respect to security password syncing between Stash & Sourcetree, there should be a mechanism of automatic syncing of passwords. In urgency if I need to download a piece of code and pull doesn't work simply because the authentication fails.
- Sometimes Stash gives problems while pulling files with long file names. I feel this can be addressed and there should not be any such restriction.
September 28, 2016
Stash it, Bash it, You Can't Crash It!
We use Stash locally for projects that we just don't want hosted elsewhere. It gives our clients peace of mind, as well as gives our developers the tools they need for developing. Stash is very similar to the hosted Bitbucket, and recently was pivoted to be more in line with that service, however it is extremely easy and straightforward for a small agile team to host Stash compared to other options.
- Version Control Environment.
- Easy set up and maintenance.
- It is really really reasonably priced!
- The features aren't in parity with Bitbucket, but are getting better.
- Upgrading to new versions of Stash.
- Solving technical issues that pop up from time to time can be confusing.