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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 |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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 21, 2017
Bitbuket review
We use Bitbucket to handle any push request (PR) for new code to our framework and this is used across the whole organization. It is a user-friendly website to review any PR and you can see changes people are submitting. It is very usefully working with JIRA to create new branches off of the repository.
- User-friendly to create and review PRs
- Works well with JIRA to create new branches off of a repository
- Easy to clone repository into a computer
- It would be nice to download more files on to our local machine so we can do some test with new code
August 11, 2017
Great product
We use Bitbucket across all of IT; it's a great product, very easy to integrate with for source control.
- Pull request screen is simple and efficient.
- Creating repositories has never been easier.
- Permissions management is easy to use.
- Note that the cloud version has a lot more features than the hosted one. The hosted one is fine, but it lags behind quite a bit on the cutting-edge stuff.
August 04, 2017
Bitbucket from a non-coder point of view
We use Bitbucket at my organization for version control and storing source code coupled with Mercurial or Git. It is mainly used by the software development division, but other users have access to the repositories to view code and comment.
- Collaboration is number one. As an Atlassian product, it fits perfectly well with the other tools and enables better collaboration through JIRA, Confluence and Hipchat.
- Feedback - Very easy to use, you can get approvals and have discussions on the code.
- Flexibility - Works with Git and Mercurial.
- Pricing - You pay for what you use and your number of users.
- Can be complicated to understand for new users, especially when there are integrations with Bitbucket Pipelines and Bamboo.
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.
June 14, 2017
A Free Bucket for Your Bits
I am currently using Bitbucket for my own personal projects. Bitbucket gives me a place to store and track the code for these projects, and share them flexibly with friends and colleagues - or keep them private as needed. Both the core git service and web interface have been reliable and fully featured in my experience.
- Offers private repositories, even with their free service level.
- Full featured, functional web interface.
- Web interface includes editing for quick text changes.
- Although the web interface is very full-featured, it is sometimes not intuitive to find the setting or feature you are looking for.
June 08, 2017
Bitbucket is amazing
Bitbucket and most Atlassian products are being used. It provides amazing source control as well as integrating with our ticketing tool, chat application and others.
- Provide clean UI for Git source control.
- Allow for public and private repositories.
- Integrate with all other Atlassian products allowing for a full suite or products we use for development.
- The UI (while currently being refreshed) could use some more "shiny" features. GitHub seems to has more.
- Sometimes page load times are a bit slow.
June 07, 2017
Bitbucket Review
Bitbucket within our company is used as our main code repository and our preferred Git version control platform. It is used across our whole organization as we have migrated from GitHub earlier this year. The business problem it addresses is, it is responsible for hosting our code, team code collaboration, and general code maintenance of our project.
- Integrates with Atlassian software suite
- Simple and easy to use UI
- Free private repositories
- Pull requests and code reviews are easy to do with Bitbucket
- Not open-source
- Less integration with software outside of Atlassian suite
- Missing two factor authentication
April 21, 2017
Bitbucket FTW
We use bitbucket across multiple dev teams for source code management. It allows us to use the dev favorite GIT and keep our source code hosted internally. The integration with other Atlassian products is great.
- Great web interface letting you browse code, makes life easy for devs.
- Great integration with SourceTree, the local GIT client also by Atlassian.
- Great visual system for pull requests (code reviews).
- Some .md markup functionality, such as anchors has not worked as expected - this may be fixed in more recent versions.
- A better way to handle merge conflicts in the Bitbucket UI would be nice.
April 20, 2017
Bitbucket is legit for personal or professional use
Bitbucket is used as a version control system in the web department of my company. The developers each have their own account and are assigned to their appropriate groups. Before my company was using BitBucket, we didn't have any version control. GitHub has a monthly fee for private repositories. It makes deployment and rolling back code changes much easier.
- Private Repositories for no cost!
- Group Management is a breeze!
- Easy to use layout!
- The UI is very confusing at first. It takes a little while to get used to.
- Group management is easy, but group access is a little more confusing.
- Some verbiage, like "Pull Request" vs. "Merge Request" could be updated, but isn't crucial.
April 06, 2017
A Bitbucket Review
Bitbucket is used almost across the entire organization as the version control tool of choice.
- It has a nice intuitive web UI
- It has several clients for Windows, Linux and Mac
- It is a full-featured Git client that allows one to perform all Git operations seamlessly
- At the moment there are no big issues I see with bitbucket, at least not from the use cases that we use it for
March 14, 2017
Bitbucket is the code management rocket
Bitbucket was being used for all projects across data and engineering team. The goal was to store files and software codes in a common place where easy to see any version of each file or documents while keeping the easy integration with other business management products. Our company has already chosen Atlassian products like Jira, so the development can also link source code branches created by Bitbucket.
- Easy integration
- Use git SCM under the hood
- Works really well with other Atlassian products
- Custom themes for the online websites like dark
- Twitter channel for outage or issues
- Specific Slack group for users to share issues or best practices
December 20, 2016
Good overall but Website is Confusing and SourceTree is Unstable
Bitbucket is good overall and meets our needs for hosting our Git repositories. It has been stable since we began using it more than a year ago, and the account flexibility has been useful for our different teams. The biggest issue we have had is the slow and unstable Windows client, which we stopped using after a couple days due to constant crashing. Also, the website navigation is not intuitive and we have had to write documentation just to remember where various links are located. It really could use cleaning up, as we are website developers and designers and even we have trouble with the navigation.
- User account and team flexibility works very well
- Stable
- Integrates well with third party Git clients
- Website navigation is confusing
- SourcTree client is slow and crashes too often
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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