Item: Atlassian Bitbucket
Rating: 6
Author: Shay O'Neil

Overall Satisfaction with Bitbucket

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

User account and team flexibility works very well
Stable
Integrates well with third party Git clients

Cons

Website navigation is confusing
SourcTree client is slow and crashes too often

Return on Investment

It has not

Alternatives Considered

We chose bitbucket because our IT budget is very low and we didn't see a reason to have to pay to use github

Other Software Used

Skype, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PrestaShop

Likelihood to Recommend

We use bitbucket with three small, separate teams that add up to about eight people total. I don't see a situation where it wouldn't be useful to use offsite storage of repositories. If the first party client is needed then I would look elsewhere, even though the client for github is also slow and unstable.

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Good overall but Website is Confusing and SourceTree is Unstable