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Bitbucket from Australian-headquartered Atlassian offers source code management and version control.
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
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Bitbucket from Australian-headquartered Atlassian offers source code management and version control.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.3.
The most common users of Bitbucket are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Bitbucket is widely used as the primary version control tool for managing source code across various organizations and departments. Developers rely on Bitbucket to check in their branches, create pull requests, and merge approved branches into the main branch. It integrates seamlessly with other tools from the Atlassian Jira suite, such as Jira, Bamboo, and Confluence, providing a reliable and easy-to-integrate source control solution. Users appreciate Bitbucket for its ability to store and track code for personal projects, as well as share them with friends and colleagues. It serves as a valuable version control system in web development departments, where each developer has their own account and is assigned to appropriate groups. Bitbucket also meets the needs of hosting Git repositories, offering stability and flexibility for different teams. Its responsive support, free private repositories, easy integration with CI tools, and smooth user interface are highly valued by users. Some users have experienced issues with the Windows client and found the website navigation unintuitive. However, overall, Bitbucket proves to be an indispensable tool for synchronizing work between developers and different teams, including external collaborators or organizations working on private projects. Additionally, small companies benefit from Bitbucket's offer of unlimited private repositories at no cost.
Stability: Users have found Bitbucket to be stable, with minimal unscheduled outages experienced over extended periods of usage. Several reviewers have mentioned that they have not encountered any major issues or disruptions while using the platform.
Code review feature: The code review feature of Bitbucket is considered good by many users. They appreciate the ability to comment on modified code and engage in discussions until a consensus is reached. This functionality has been praised for facilitating effective collaboration and ensuring high-quality code.
Integration with JIRA: Many users value Bitbucket's integration with JIRA, as it allows them to create a new branch directly from a JIRA issue. This feature helps keep code organized and easily accessible. Several reviewers have highlighted how this seamless workflow management enhances collaboration within teams.
Confusing and outdated user interface: Many users have expressed frustration with the confusing and outdated user interface of Bitbucket. They find it difficult to navigate, locate desired settings or features, and describe it as not intuitive or in need of updating.
Limited search engine functionality: The search engine in Bitbucket has been criticized for its limitations. Users have mentioned that it does not search within source code, requiring them to set up a third-party search engine. This lack of comprehensive searching capability hinders their ability to efficiently find specific code snippets or files.
Lack of integration options for third-party apps: Some users have expressed frustration with the limited integration options available for third-party apps in Bitbucket. They mention that this lack of flexibility makes it less convenient to use the tool alongside other tools they rely on for their development workflow.
Users commonly recommend Bitbucket for its strong version control capabilities and integrations with project management tools. They suggest considering Bitbucket, especially if you are already using other Atlassian products. Users also advise giving it a trial period of one month to determine if it meets your needs. Moreover, they mention that Bitbucket is straightforward to manage for basic code. However, some users caution that it may not be the optimal choice for handling multiple branches.
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August 29, 2022
Secured repository hosting service from Atlassian!
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
We're searching for a nice ecosystem of Jira and Bitbucket, and we've been using Bitbucket for a repository hosting service. Some of the benefits I have realized are
- Smooth and user-friendly user interface(UI)
- Easy to use
- Fast and safe code review functionality
- Code search capability
- Remote hosting service (Devops)
- Collaborative working on repository
- User-friendly UI
- Continuous integration and continuous deployment ( CI/CD)
- SSH key handling
- Open-source projects (popular projects)
June 30, 2021
Reliable and easy to use
We've been using Bitbucket since the start of the company, by our IT team. It helps us synchronize work between developers and different teams, even other organizations. This service is perfect for private projects and has a ton of integrations with different tools like Slack, which helps us keep track of code updates and project development.
- Ease of use
- Security
- Stability
- Pricing (as a Brazilian customer, we pay in Dollars instead of our local currency)
- Online merge tool
- SSH keys management
We used Bitbucket for a while as a source control management. It integrates really well with JIRA and is fairly decent at doing what it needs to do. It was used across the entire development team as a source code repository and code review platform. It enabled us to comment on pull requests and code
November 25, 2019
Bitbucket - Good for Small Companies Who are on a Budget but Lacking the Features to Be the Best
It is/was being used as the primary version control provider for 2 of the companies I have worked for. It allowed us to store our Git commit history on remote servers and share it with all employees so that everyone is using the correct code. It allows for free private repositories for small teams which was nice for a young startup.
- Free private repositories for small teams - this is great to save costs relative to other options
- They have some robust (although sometimes confusing) team and project management tools
- They have built out many pipeline and integrations, but we did not use these
- The code management UI is a bit rough around the edges and difficult to work with.
- BitBucket does not have the same simplified PR management tools as other competitors.
- It's not as easy to integrate 3rd party apps as other competitors.
October 30, 2019
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We used Bitbucket for hosting several private code repositories for our business. I’ve also used it a bit for personal projects. It is very easy to get started and is a great solution for hosting private repositories. Atlassian has many products under its umbrella and integrating Bitbucket with other services is made really easy.
- Hosting private repos.
- Managing team collaborators.
- Integrating with other Atlassian products.
- The markdown used for issues was lacking compared to GitHub.
- Pricing for a small team was a bit more than competitors.
- The interface is a bit too “business” class and not very intuitive.
Across our whole organization, we are using the Bitbucket platform. We are using Bitbucket for code versioning and managing our source codes. Our development teams collaborate and manage the source codes within the platform. We can set access permissions for repositories, and also the user interfaces are very easy to use. It is the ideal way to manage and store our source codes.
- Easy to version our source codes.
- We can ensure maximum protection for our valuable source codes.
- Can set access permissions for repositories.
- We can easily review source codes.
- When the service is down, it will remain down for more than 1 or 2 hours.
- Unable to archive repositories.
- It would be great if we could have some improvements to the user interfaces and user experiences.
April 11, 2018
Super affordable for smaller teams!
Bitbucket is used company-wide in all of our Engineering departments for a variety of products. We organized a large number of repositories in one organization and have each of the repository's permissions set to allow writing/reading for only a specific sub-group of our entire company. When creating a new repository, we typically clone a default repository, which additionally clones all of our personalized settings for the repo, such as webhooks, permissions, descriptions, etc...
- Affordable for larger teams that require many reports split up separately into sub-groups.
- Easy to customize all repo permissions and settings.
- Awesome in-browser code viewer, that was just released!
- Extremely intuitive and well-done UI, allowing viewing of many reports and handling code and files extremely simple/quick.
- Private repositories are only free for up to 5 team members.
- Many of the features of Bitbucket are clearly still a work-in-progress. You can see that some of the features aren't stable, and there are still some bugs in the releases that they make.
- Searching repositories are not possible in the browser, unlike GitHub. You must download the entire repository or branch first, and then perform the search locally.
April 03, 2018
Great productivity tool for teams
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
It is actually the tool used to share our apps code by the whole organization. It works perfectly as needed. There have been very few times when the service was unavailable so I would say it is pretty reliable, which is very important for this kind of product.
Lately they have updated the user interface and I find it much better than before. As I'm not usually writing code I do use the web interface to look things up when needed.
Lately they have updated the user interface and I find it much better than before. As I'm not usually writing code I do use the web interface to look things up when needed.
- Works seamlessly with our build tool (Drone CI)
- Easy and clean UI for exploring the repo
- Reliable service
- Improve the file diff tool
- Have an official mobile app, mainly to be able to look at updates, PR, commits, etc.
December 13, 2017
Your go-to for free private repositories!
Previously I was using it as the main development platform for work. I found the free private repositories very valuable for an early stage start up as well as very easy to integrate with CI and other tools. They have plenty of integrations prebuilt and their support is very responsive as well. I find it a very great alternative to GitHub and GitLab (which seems to be down almost every day at least for a couple hours).
I still use it personally for my own projects that I work on with friends and have almost no issue with the basic day to day features.
I still use it personally for my own projects that I work on with friends and have almost no issue with the basic day to day features.
- Bitbucket is almost never down and you'll always be able to access your repositories.
- Easy to use integrations for CI and development tools.
- Newly rolled out features are well thought out and do not take away from the UX and core functionality.
- The settings of each repository are a little bit hard to navigate.
- The list of all projects and repositories are also hard to navigate.
- For a smaller team, keeping track of smaller projects all over the place is tedious.
November 10, 2017
A very good version control system
Bitbucket has been used extensively in the digital part of my company. We are using it for all our projects small and big and it is our official way of versioning software. It helps to keep track of every change done to the code and to have a history of them without the risk of losing data.
- Versioning code: tracking every commit with precision
- Branches management: Managing branches for a team working on the same project
- Accessibility: easy interface via web for the codebase
- Project management: Creation of projects and sub-repositories is a little bit lacklustre
- I would like an editor (maybe WYSIWYG) for readme (MD) files
- Conflict merge history to improve
August 01, 2017
Cost Effective and Intuitive Tool
Bitbucket is currently being used as our primary source control tool across development and data teams. We host all of our code, data operations scripts, SSIS projects, etc., in Bitbucket repositories. It's essential for proper code maintenance, collaborating among teams, versioning, etc., as well as integrating well with the other Atlassian products we work with.
- Easy integration with SourceTree.
- Perfect avenue for code reviews.
- Easy to understand interface.
- More efficient and easy to understand methods for addressing merge conflicts.
- Assigning access levels and group access is a bit confusing.
- Better community forums for addressing shared problems with the tool.
April 13, 2016
An Amazing deal for an amazingly valuable service!
We use bitbucket to host many private code repos for all of our projects. We leverage the git versioning and branching to manage releases of app software, web apps, web sites, codebases and other projects. We manage a team of around 10 with group based policy access to branches and repos that streamlines our workflow across Mac and Windows developers working in Javascript, LeSS, ScSS, ASP.net, and many other web technologies.
- The interface is awesome, and accomplishing tasks is fantastic
- There are many tools and options within the repo setting available to you
- Manages pull reqeusts and user based access control to branches
- Hosted which means the code is out of your control on someone else's server
- Web interface can sometimes be slow
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