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Bitbucket is the Git solution for professional teams. Collaborate on code with inline comments and pull requests. Manage and share your Git repositories to build and ship software, as a team. Use built-in continuous delivery for end-to-end visibility from coding to deployment....
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Bitbucket from Australian-headquartered Atlassian offers source code management and version control.

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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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Yash Raut | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
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
Bitbucket had an excellent integration with all of Jira and Bitbucket. Bitbucket's user interface is intuitive and maintaining repositories is a breeze.
  • 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)
Bitbucket is a really good platform to work collaboratively over remote repositories. It provides repository hosting, which works with version control systems like git. Bitbucket is well suited when a team or group of people wants to work simultaneously without any conflicts. Bitbucket seems to be useful for users who do have good industry knowledge I won't recommend this to new users; I will prefer GitHub over Bitbucket for new users.
Shivang Kar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Be it the case where your company has just been founded and there are only one or two engineers, or it has matured into a big organization with huge teams; at both the stages you need to maintain your code base properly. For us, Bitbucket has been the sole code hosting and collaboration tool from the beginning of our organization. For all our projects, we trust Bitbucket.
  • The best code hosting & collaboration tool
  • Very good integration with task management systems such as Jira
  • Provides easy and effective CI/CD
  • Code review is amazing on Bitbucket
  • Seeing the older commits. If we want to track a specific piece of code in a file by visiting some of the older commits from dropdown, then currently if we select on any commit, the dropdown resets; thus losing track of commit that was selected.
  • The dashboard where the pull requests of all the projects are shown could be improved by adding more filters. Currently there are limited options and requires us to travel to that specific repository if we want to apply any filter.
Throughout my career, I have used multiple repository management solutions, and Bitbucket provides one of the cleanliest and easiest solution. The ecosystem and interconnectivity with their other products that they provide is amazing. It makes repository management, task management and tracking a piece of cake, making everyone in the organization to be aware of the status of their product development.
ANurag Tamrakar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We're using BitBucket for a very long to host our git-based source code repositories in it. Earlier we were using SubVersion (SVN) to manage our source code and we found BitBucket better in all means whether its underneath technology, UI/UX, Security, Collaboration, Commit & merge request, User/Group, and repository management, etc.
  • Hosting Source code repositories.
  • User and Group management.
  • Sending Email notifications on Commits and merges.
  • It has a tight integration with Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence etc.
  • It doesn't have a built in CI/CD.
  • It doesn't have anything else other than source code repositories hosting.
  • It has stopped support of HTTPs based authentication only SSH is supported.
If you're looking for hosting your Git-based source code repositories or simply managing your source code, BitBucket does it well. You can create projects in BitBucket and source code repositories under the projects. Also, you can manage access to projects for users/groups using role-based access control. BitBucket will not suit you if you are into DevOps processes as it only manages your source code nothing other than that.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As part of the software development process we need to figure out how to manage the version control, we need to keep the code private and the best option for us was Bitbucket, it fulfilled all the needs we have as a team. We're able to organize projects by clients and create groups, and of course using git to upload our changes.
  • Access Control
  • Organize projects
  • Handles security pretty easy
  • I'd like to see an alert mechanism whenever make changes to the groups
As a team we need to push code into the repo on daily basis, Bitbucket has proven that is a reliable and secure server to save and get the code available in no time. The administration part is really easy and there's an extra tool for every developer profile either if you want to use the console or a GUI like Sourcetree.
Carlos Eduardo de Souza | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Since the very start of our business, we've been using Bitbucket services to collaborate and develop new projects. It's very stable and reliable, it rarely had gone offline in almost 9 years of continuous use.
Also, Atlassian (the Bitbucket owner) has created a great GUI tool called Sourcetree, enabling even inexperienced developers to collaborate in a git environment.
Matthew Budram | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bitbucket is perfect for all sized companies - it works even if you are using the free version and it works even better with the paid versions. Initially, we started out using bitbucket as simply a code repository so we could quickly set up projects - as we expanded and started using Atlassian's project management tools then it became important for us to integrate the development teams with the PM teams. The integrations gave Project Management teams insights into the technical issues without necessarily being burdened by the details. I especially like the ability to have control over changes being deployed directly into production - running continuous integrations to ensure the code quality is maintained!
  • Atlassian Integrations especially Jira.
  • Easily configurable continuous Integration.
  • Product backlogs can be visible from Bitbucket.
  • Prettier Project Pages
In the Caribbean - with limited resources, it is nice to know a company will be there in assisting you to grow. They will start you off with a very good free tier and you can scale easier on a predictable budget. Bitbucket works especially when you are using Atlassian's toolset. If you aren't married to the company - then you can explore others like GitHub which offers comparable features without much compromise.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our IT team uses Bitbucket for all our Git repositories. A few years ago, we were on a self-hosted Visual Source Safe system and it was not sustainable for us. Since we were moving to Jira, Bitbucket became a very attractive addition. We migrated all of our repositories out of VSS and into Bitbucket and since then have enjoyed using it for code review, pull requests, version control, integration with Jira and automation orchestration. Jira and Bitbucket integration has been a joy to use.
  • Great integration with Jira
  • Easy to use
  • Cost
  • Can be slow sometimes
  • Stability
Bitbucket works really well with Jira and Atlassian ecosystem. If you are in the Atlassian ecosystem, definitely consider Bitbucket as your version control repository. Bitbucket shines in code review process and also in pull requests. It is easy for users to get used to. If you are doing CI/CD and pipeline, you'll like Bitbucket also.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BitBucket is used by the developers and testers in the Technology and Operations group. It helps to version control the code and to implement end-to-end DevOps continuous integration. This is one of the best git-based source code management tools I've used and managed.
  • Very easy to integrate with other DevOps tools like Jenkins and with project/workflow management tools like Jira.
  • Very efficient in managing security and compliance standards for code, especially during pull requests, merge requests, branching, etc.
  • Very robust in performance, especially the cloud and datacenter versions hardly hit any performance issues and supports more than 2000+ developers in my company.
  • User Access Permissions to manage at the BitBucket instance level, Project level, Repository level, Pull/Merge requests level, etc. are making it difficult to manage, especially during the annual access review exercise in my organization. There should be bulk access provisioning and an access review feature instead of doing it using an external tool like Atlassian Crowd.
  • There should be ways to identify and archive unused repositories and branches. Currently, this is done manually.
  • When the license is fully utilized, then it stops all users from using it. It shouldn't stop the existing licensed users from using the tool. Instead, it should stop only the new users trying to access.
It is well suited for environments where code needs to be stored securely within your data center and there's also a need to implement regulatory requirements such as Maker Checker reviews in banking, etc. before the code is built and deployed to live production environments.
Sean Patterson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Bitbucket to manage the source code for all of our clients that do not have their own source control system. The code review feature makes it easy for our teams to evaluate each other's code for quality and consistency with standards. Additionally, we leverage the pipelines feature to provide automated deployments and testing where possible to maximize our CICD process for our projects.
  • Code Review
  • Code Management
  • Light Automation
  • Stability - While better than in the past, there are times where Bitbucket services will go offline or be hindered several times a day, which can cause problems with deployments and workflow.
  • Pipelines - The pipelines interface is largely a log with output, and a text editor in which to configure changes. It would nice to see this a little more robust to make it easier to interface with.
For most standard code management and deployment scenarios, Bitbucket does a fabulous job. You can easily branch you code, review it, merge it, and deploy it with little manual intervention once things are set up.

If you need a more robust pipeline for your projects, Bitbucket might not suit you as well. If you need to establish multiple tests, potential load tests, additional compilation, and more deployment options, other tools, such as Azure DevOps would better suit your needs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My department uses Bitbucket as a code repository for our eCommerce site. It is used exclusively by our Information Technology department within the company. This product allows my team to share code, merge code objects that were worked on by various developers, and even view the history of the code objects. It also integrates very well with Jira which makes collaboration even easier.
  • It integrates seamlessly with Jira allowing code repositories to be linked directly to projects / issues.
  • It merges code allowing for team collaboration.
  • The user community is not as vast as other Git products such as GitHub.
  • The UI could use some updating / improvements.
Bitbucket is particularly well suited for teams that need to collaborate on projects. I also highly recommend it for development teams that use Jira for projects and issue tracking since they integrate so nicely. It also allows for side-by-side comparison of code.

Although Bitbucket does allow merging of code, the conflicts have to be manually addressed which can be time consuming. If this is something you believe your team may encounter frequently, there might be better options.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bitbucket is used by all of our developers across our organization. As our official source code management system, Bitbucket saves time and money on programming projects. It makes it easier for our employees to collaborate, while also providing a reliable backup of all previous versions of our source code if we need to revert any changes quickly.
  • Collaboration - Bitbucket makes it easy for large teams to work together on programming projects.
  • Code Search - Source code is indexed and searchable.
  • Issue Tracking - Bitbucket doesn't seem to be built with issue tracking in mind.
  • Third-Party Support - There are still a lot of other vendors that don't integrate with Bitbucket, even if they offer integrations for GitHub or other similar tools.
Bitbucket is great for development teams that need to manage source code in a central location. It's uniquely well suited for organizations that use other Atlassian products (such as Jira, Confluence, etc.) due to available integrations. Due to the relatively affordable licensing costs, Bitbucket is also a good choice for nonprofits or other teams with a limited budget.
January 22, 2020

Start small Scale Big.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  1. Bitbucket is used across the whole organization.
  2. Helpful in continuous integrations.
  3. Helpful in incremental builds if used along with other software that supports it.
  4. Helpful in private repository management, we host our private repositories on bitbucket and use it internally within the organization.
  5. It can be integrated with other third-party apps to showcase how the task is ongoing.
  • Continuous integration - Multiple people can work simultaneously on the same project.
  • Private repositories- Can be created on the cloud and can be used internally.
  • Pricing - limited number of repositories can be created for free.
  • Per project pricing is a bit more compared to other competitors.
  • Well suited/ less appropriate if-
  • You want to start small and are ready to invest in Bitbucket as the company grows. Since pricing can let you explore other options, even in that case, you have your whole repository locally with you, which you can migrate easily by merely changing the remote.
  • Least appropriate if your project is extensive and exceeds even 2GB.
January 20, 2020

Bitbucket

Mohammad Aminul Islam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Bitbucket in our group to store the code files of group members and keep it organized. It is being used by a research group.
  • Repository for code files in different languages (Python, C++).
  • Share code with other people.
  • Speed up the pull and push request for bigger files.
  • Increase and promote community support.
Bitbucket is well suited as a repository for research code files. It has a feature to keep the files public or private. So, anyone can store their code file in the private repository and share it among the group.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In most of my experiences, both with personal projects working from home and working with clients remotely, doing freelance or working directly with a company, all of them had some sort of repository service available online to securely store their code and to allow teams of software developers of different sizes to collaborate in projects of all sizes. For some specific cases, I found companies using Bitbucket heavily, in some cases. combined with other options mostly to have a "plan b" in case Bitbucket would change their privacy settings. I have seen Bitbucket not only being used as a repository but also being used to fully run all the continuous integration and continuous deployment strategy, using most of its capabilities to have tickets, integrations with hooks and even pipelines to different VPS providers. One of the good things about Bitbucket for small companies is the fact that they offer you at no cost unlimited private repositories, unlike other providers where you need to pay a fee. It also has a great Jira integration which comes in handy when your company uses other Atlassian products. It also has integration with other tools but other repository providers also count on these integrations so if you choose to use BitBucket it will be more personal preference and choosing the right tool for your necessities.
  • Unlimited private repositories.
  • Pull requests and code reviews.
  • The configuration can be tricky sometimes unlike with other tools.
Small companies with limited budgets can immediately have a tool that will allow them to have continuous integration and delivery built-in by default along with unlimited private repositories. Companies that want to show their public repositories to the world in order to attract new developers to contribute or even work for them might have issues achieving this by using Bitbucket. This is not a problem for platforms such as GitHub.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Bitbucket in our client location. It is used as a standard SCM tool for the entire client across all domains.
It helps to store and maintain your code along with easy configuration with other Atlassian tools like Confluence and Jira. Its sync between other Atlassian products is a great benefit for the management of teams.
  • Source of management
  • Code review
  • Create pipelines within the app.
  • Syncs with other tools.
It is well suited for large enterprises that have many teams and want to manage all the teams along with their codes in a single platform. It has the feature of making teams within companies. Then, you have your repos inside the teams which make it easy for users to search for their code easily even if they are kept in a single SCM tool.
Richard Rout | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
  • Integrates with JIRA.
  • Private repositories.
  • Not as rounded or as complete as GitHub or Gitlab.
  • Seems very entangled in the Atlassian ecosystem.
If you're already using the Atlassian suite of products it's a great idea to use Bitbucket for your source code management and code reviews. Integrating with JIRA and other Atlassian products is a great feature and provides a lot of utility and insights into code and how things are getting done. But if you're not already bought into that Atlassian/JIRA world, it probably makes more sense to use something like GitHub or Gitlab instead.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bitbucket is being used worldwide by my organization. In my department, it is being used fo manage source codes for internally developed applications. As we use JIRA also to manage the requests, we can link the demands with corrections that should be made in the developed applications. Also, we use Bitbucket to hold legacy application codes.
  • Easy to use.
  • Integrated with JIRA.
  • License cost.
  • Sometimes integrated applications like SourceTree perform strange errors, causing loss of time.
It applies to almost all development scenarios, where it is necessary to hold and control the source code. It can be integrated with Visual Studio that can help speed up the coding process with security. It is not recommended to use with open-source codes, because it is not being used (popular) among this kind of programmers.
Joshua Cariño | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bitbucket is being used in almost all of our projects. It is even being used to teach new software engineers like us how to use Git as it is very easy to use with a non-cluttered user interface. We mostly used it so far with our SonarQube integration for detecting code vulnerabilities and bad code structure. Personally, I use it with my UI Git which is GitKraken as I could directly push and pull request commits from that GIT application without going to BitBucket.
  • CI/CD.
  • Slack integration.
  • I want to see analytics functionality, like commits, merges per week or month, etc.
Very well suited for general use of Git within the organization and a good place to teach new developers how to work collaboratively in Git. However for trials and test, developers that could be added in projects/repositories are limited. I wish they could increase this further at least up to 10 developers. Other than that, it's still a good place to start working collaboratively as it is very easy to use.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Bitbucket is a great option for people who want a free tool for a small startup or team. Other options require you to pay for private teams for professional projects. It can handle anything you need for basic needs - you can manage your code and versions while also easily managing the team and access to it.
October 30, 2019

Bitbucket Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Hosting private repositories was the core business use of Bitbucket for us. I also used it for hosting private demo repos for third-party clients which was easy as well.

Unfortunately, I did not find the usability of the platform as intuitive as GitHub, particularly when it came to showing markdown in issues, something about the formatted just didn’t click.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is a great replacement for SVN. You can save all your codes or necessary documents on the network rather than saving them locally on a computer. This not only lets everybody in your company use your codes, but it also prevents it from getting lost due to computer breakdown, theft, etc.
  • Saving codes on a server.
  • Easy to use.
  • Don't necessarily have to use terminal to do Git operations.
  • It can make it more user-friendly so that first-time users find it easy to work with.
  • It is costly.
  • Setup is a bit tricky.
It is really good if you are familiar with Git commands, etc. But for first-time users you do have to take extra efforts to help them understand. Or use software like Sourcetree to ease the process and not have to use terminal.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bitbucket is currently our primary version control solution. It is being used as a primary system for all code that requires versioning.
  • For what it is, Bitbucket works very well.
  • Ease of use - Navigating the UI is pretty seamless and straightforward.
  • Plugins - Bitbucket has a wide array of plugins available that allow pretty easy integrations with other tools and systems.
  • Reliability - In my experience, bitbucket is not the most reliable solution available.
  • Restoring - Plugins seem to be all or nothing when restoring. This makes knowing which things are enabled not the greatest experience when an event happens and you must restore. Several days of “well, we noticed this feature was missing” is pretty painful in the way of end-user experience.
  • Permissions - In many ways, setting specific permissions for projects and repositories are not as intuitive as other solutions available.
Bitbucket is your run of the mill version control system. If you are looking for a solution that also has powerful pipelining capabilities, this probably isn’t for you. If you are looking for a basic system you can use to implement version control and a place to store your code, Bitbucket is a pretty good solution. The Bitbucket server UI is very different than the Bitbucket cloud UI so your mileage may vary on usability, but either option is pretty easy to implement and use.
Brett Knighton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
All the dev groups in our organization use a hosted instance of Bitbucket. Typically each department has their own project with the exception being projects for shared libraries used across multiple products. Bitbucket allows us to efficiently manage the code base of products across our organization.
  • Bitbucket allows us to create merge rules specific to the needs of each repository.
  • Bitbucket allows for integrations with build tools such as TeamCity so we can ensure successful builds of branches and pull requests before merging.
  • The different tools and comment tracking on pull requests are super convenient.
  • There is a learning curve to the UI and user management tools.
Bitbucket is well suited for large organizations that need custom deployments and to self-host their repositories. I wouldn't recommend it for open source projects.
Machindra Dharmadhikari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used across all of the organization by all developers. It is used primarily as a source code version control repository but some of the teams use it as a binary repository as well. It is used for code review by developers. Bitbucket also supports add-ons which help users get customized functionality in the application, helping them to work easily and adapt it the way they want.
  • Bitbucket provides more flexibility in using custom plugins, which helps developers to use required functionalities in Bitbucket which may not be available by default.
  • Bitbucket provides integration with JIRA which helps users track the commits in JIRA. Reduces the manual work which required to track the commit against each JIRA story.
  • Bitbucket allows configuring SSH key of the server which helps to clone and commit the code very fast & very easily.
  • Third-party plugins which were recommended by the Atlassian. We installed it in our instance but we don’t get proper support in case of any issues in the instance because of the plugin. Sometimes Git doesn’t work with bitbucket well so Atlassian should help in troubleshooting as Git is recommended client by the Atlassian.
  • Bitbucket doesn’t have the capability to generate the graphs and customised reports of source code repos. For reports, we need to use Atlassian recommended third party plugins but those are having a lot of performance issues in the whole instance and the vendor doesn’t provide the resolutions in a timely manner.
  • Bitbucket does not capture the details about the force push. There should be some way to capture the details of force push as force push deletes the history.
Bitbucket is well suited in small organisation with less users and also for adopting multiple instances based on projects instead of having one instance for whole organisation. Good for up to 8k users in one instance. Bitbucket is not suited for bigger organisations which having only one instance shared across all the departments. It is also not directly suited for the source code files which are in huge size but not categorised under the binaries.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bitbucket is used by my department as a code repository as well as for automating the build process for applications.
  • Good integration with other Atlassian products as well as 3rd party products like Slack.
  • Good for code review via pull requests.
  • Pipeline feature is very useful for automating the build process.
  • Could integrate better with a documentation tool, like GitHub does.
Bitbucket is great for having low-cost private repositories and integration with other Atlassian tools like Jira. The bitbucket pipeline feature is powerful (supports docker builds) for CI. The pull request feature ensures that you can make code review mandatory.

If you want a lot of documentation and a public-facing repo, Github is better.
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