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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 Enterprises (1,001+ 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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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.
January 22, 2020
Start small Scale Big.
- Bitbucket is used across the whole organization.
- Helpful in continuous integrations.
- Helpful in incremental builds if used along with other software that supports it.
- Helpful in private repository management, we host our private repositories on bitbucket and use it internally within the organization.
- 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.
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.
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 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 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.
May 10, 2019
Basic Bitbucket is Decent
We have a dedicated team that is using Bitbucket in the organization today. They were part of a prior acquisition that was setup on the Atlassian tool set. It's used in conjunction with other Atlassian tools including JIRA, and Bamboo to facilitate development processes and source code management. It's worth noting that Dynacare is using both Bitbucket and VSTS for our source code management.
- Bitbucket is very simple as a code repository goes. You can't really go wrong if you choose to keep private repositories here.
- If you're ok with the basics, the pricing point is competitive compared to alternatives like VSTS which can cost more.
- Integration to other Atlassian tools is well done. JIRA integration, for instance, enables branching and code reviews right from the JIRA tickets, which can improve work efficiency. If you choose to also purchase Bamboo, automated builds and deployments hook into the repositories and provide icons to determine if the build is working or broken.
- Management of the repositories and projects is simple and easy to use.
- Getting support for an issue is relatively speedy and the staff are usually able to help you resolve issues quickly.
- The UI needs a refresh because it feels so dated and clunky.
- CI is not available in the free tier. Costs of Bamboo to get CI builds can be expensive.
March 27, 2019
A much simpler way to manage the source codes.
This great software called Bitbucket is being used in the software development deparment since it is very useful. It provides the optimal tools to carry out the development of large business projects making communication, writing code, testing and implementation much simpler because we can access all of this in one place. It also allows us to access our private repositories in a much more secure way because we are the ones who give permission to access them. The implementation of this software has facilitated the administration of codes as well as the management of projects.
- Intuitive and interactive interface.
- Provides security to all our codes.
- It offers unlimited private repositories.
- Its integration with other tools makes its operation much more powerful.
- Provides the most optimal tools to carry out the development of projects in a safe and simple way.
- Its integrations are very limited since it is only integrated with tools from the same company.
- When you want to create very large projects, your platform tends to slow down so when you want to test the codes and implement them, it is difficult to proceed.
- Your only way to get all the tools or features of your platform is through premium users.
- Collaborative work, although it is a great advantage, can also imply more expenses, especially if it is executed through its integration with other tools.
November 12, 2018
A complex but powerful piece of the puzzle
We're using Bitbucket (formerly Stash) across most of the engineering organizations. It helps us collaborate better on code and integrates well with other Atlassian tools like Jira and Bamboo, which makes it easier to implement DevOps processes and keep track of the development workflow.
- Integration with other Atlassian products is great. Of course, this is probably the main reason people go with any of the Atlassian products, that they integrate with each other so seamlessly
- It has a lot of automatic features relating to Jira and Bamboo, like exposing Bamboo job runs. This allows you to make better decisions about whether or not to merge a pull request, for example.
- The new UI is based off Atlassian's new aesthetic, which makes the tool a pleasure to use. While not a "hard" feature, developer happiness is an important benefit
- Using Jira for issues gives a lot of power, but it's also a lot of overhead and complexity that may or may not be necessary for your organization. It also puts issues in another tool, adding a little friction when it comes to addressing issues in your code
- Searching for and discovering other projects and GitHub isn't quite as intuitive or easy to use as competitors
August 29, 2018
Bitbucket for your development needs
Most of the departments at eSilicon use Bitbucket for
- Source code versioning
- Code review
- Pull requests and approvals
- Public and private repositories
- File versioning - as simple as that
- Code review and approval of the pull requests: very handy when some team members are juniors or new to the project and the project lead or the senior developer(or both) has to be watchful on the commits.
- Permissions management - as a Bitbucket users and projects manager, I have to be careful who has access to the code and especially the code of other projects. In Bitbucket the permissions are simple and fit to this purpose.
- Price tag - as my number of users increased from 10 to 25, then 50 and now 100+, I find it harder and harder to get the budget for licenses upgrade. They have trial licenses that you can use temporary to address your urgent need, but still need to upgrade eventually.
- Built-in Confluence integration - I have a requirement to integrate Bitbucket with Confluence so that users can add code snippets in the documentation easily. I was expecting to have this built-in, however there are 3rd party paid plugins to buy which is not an option for me
- Integration with the big cloud providers, like GitHub has.
February 01, 2018
A fantastic source code management tool
We use Bitbucket in all our offices worldwide to manage our source code migrated to Git - that is, almost all our code base, as we get rid of older versioning systems like CVS, SVN, Mercurial and Platinum. Bitbucket gives a front-end that helps a lot the collaboration between developers on a common code base: helping see the code in central repositories, visualize the branching network, manage pull requests, perform the associated code reviews, and plug external tools (like Jenkins) thanks to its system of hooks.
- In my experience, Bitbucket has shown as very stable. In more than 2 years of regular usage, with more than 5,000 people contributing on an immense code base, I have only experienced one unscheduled outage as a user, lasting less than 1 hour.
- Bitbucket proposes a handy visualization tool to help see branches, merges of the various contributions.
- The code review feature of Bitbucket is fairly good, allowing to comment modified code, reply to comments. This helps developers discuss on changes until they reach a consensus.
- Bitbucket also integrates with HipChat. Pull requests can trigger notifications in HipChat rooms.
- It is possible to add hooks, and integrate specific actions through various plugins. A Jenkins plugin allows to set up a continuous integration system, and contribute in a Devops initiative.
- Bitbucket does not highlight well lines of code for which only the indent change. This makes it painful to review some pull requests, as large blocks of code can be highlighted as changed.
- When accessing a project or repository for which you don't have access, Bitbucket just gives you an error, but gives no way of notifying the project/repository owner that you would like to get access, or getting the name(s) of the project/repository owner(s).
- The search engine is quite limited. It seems it searches in the repository names and descriptions, but does not search in the source code. We have to setup a third-party search engine.
January 17, 2018
Great Version Control System for Private Repositories
Bitbucket is used in my company to share some git repositories with third party entities. Due to some restrictions of networks and security, when a code share is needed between the company and third parties, this is the tool used to share code.
- Unlimited private repositories for free for teams up to 5 elements. Even for larger teams, the prices are affordable.
- Great integration with JIRA, allows to create branches from a JIRA issue.
- Multiple login options: Google + (preferable), but also GitHub, Facebook and Twitter
- Allow to import project from other sources: Git, Mercurial, Subversion, SourceForge and CodePlex
- Allows to create repositories in Git or Mercurial
- Excellent for academic purposes
- Doesn't have a massive community behind it like GitHub
- If you want to host BitBucket in your servers, the price will increase a lot
- Web UI could be improved, some tasks like see all branches or search on code could be a huge pain
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
- More hooks