Bitbucket

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Bitbucket
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Plant your code in the cloud. Watch it grow.
collaborative version management
languages English, Russian, German, Chinese, French, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Japanese
operator Atlassian
Registration optional
On-line 2008 (currently active)
https://bitbucket.org

Bitbucket is a web-based online service for version control for software -Entwicklungsprojekte. The service was originally developed as a pure Mercurial system, but on October 3, 2011, support for Git was added. Bitbucket was developed in 2007 by the Danish Jesper Nøhr and bought by Atlassian in 2010 . As of July 1, 2020, Mercurial is no longer supported.

properties

In contrast to other open source hosters such as SourceForge, it is not the project as a collection of source text that is central on Bitbucket , but rather the user with his repositories , i.e. directories that are managed by the respective version control system . At the same time to create (will industries ) and merge ( merging ) of spin-offs ( Forks particularly propagated). Spin-offs also serve to be able to easily help develop other projects.

Users are encouraged to work together in teams. Unlike other VCS services such as GitHub , Bitbucket basically provides every user with an unlimited number of private, i.e. not publicly visible, repositories free of charge. Teams of up to five members can also take out a free subscription. Larger teams have to pay a monthly fee.

use

In 2014, over 330,000 teams from over 2.5 million developers worked with Bitbucket, and 200 terabytes of code were hosted. In addition to Atlassian, companies that use Bitbucket include:

The open source projects Eigen and OGRE are also hosted at Bitbucket.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. BitBucket now with Git support. October 4, 2011, accessed April 8, 2015 .
  2. sunsetting Mercurial support in bitbucket. August 20, 2019. Retrieved December 13, 2019 (American English).
  3. Pricing for Git and Mercurial repo hosting. Retrieved April 8, 2015 .
  4. ^ Raj Sarkar: Bitbucket: 2014 in review. February 5, 2015, accessed April 8, 2015 .