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Bitbucket: 2014 in review

108 points by gitdude 12y ago

deepinsand 12y ago
And still no 2 factor authorization ...
- Techbrunch 12y ago
  You can vote for this issue here:https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/5811/support-two-factor-authentication-bb-7016 https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/5811/support-two-fac...
baldfat 12y ago
Best for my own use due to unlimited free private repos limited by number of users. Works great for a one or two user work flow.
traeregan 12y ago
I like tuhtles. I also like Bitbucket. The team size based pricing w/ unlimited repos is what sold us over GitHub.
bombtrack 12y ago
I love that BB gives you unlimited private repos, and I'm glad to see them making progress. There's still plenty of things to improve [1,2]. [1] https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/4222/no-support-for-ecdsa-keys https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/4222/no-support-for-... [2] https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/6315/relative-urls-in-readmemd-files-only-work https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/6315/relative-urls-i...
- flavor8 12y ago
  Or https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/589/file-history-should-follow-copies-and https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/589/file-history-sho... ...which is almost 6 years old, and makes it hell to view PRs that involve moved files.
- Techbrunch 12y ago
  Or this one: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/6315/relative-urls-in-readmemd-files-only-work https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/6315/relative-urls-i...
  - sytse 12y ago
    I think this is a duplicate of [2] in the parent post.
- sytse 12y ago
  GitLab B.V. CEO here, our open source edition has support for [1] ECDSA keys and [2] relative urls in readme's should always work. Consider giving GitLab.com a spin.
kiliancs 12y ago
Bitbucket is great, but also check out SourceTree, their git / Mercurial client http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
- karmelapple 12y ago
  Great tool that I use daily. Interestingly, I recently talked to someone in an interview setting who got asked a question about git, and as soon as the interviewee started saying, "Typically I use SourceTree," the interviewer's demeanor turned sour on asking any further version control questions. Just because someone uses a GUI for version control doesn't mean they don't understand it... I prefer the way SourceTree makes it very easy and visual to stage portions of a file, and the always-displayed tree makes it very clear how different branching and merging operations are going to happen. Seemed like some weird attitude against a GUI source control tool... especially one specifically well-designed for a Mercurial or Git workflow.
  - seanwilson 12y ago
    I'm a happy SourceTree user as well. I know how to use Git in the terminal but I find SourceTree quicker to use as it lets me quickly visualise what I need to see.
    - orbitur 12y ago
      It's interesting to think about. I use SourceTree for 3 things: - new branches (I find the syntax tedious for some reason, and I like to see where I am in the tree, so I'm already looking at SourceTree's interface when I'm branching) - deleting remote branches (see above about syntax) - awesome diff visualization for past commits and current work Everything else I do on the command line, because SourceTree requires just a few too many clicks for my liking. It's a shame the terminal can't have a nice diff interface like SourceTree's, otherwise I'd probably be full terminal.
      - seanwilson 12y ago
anton_gogolev 12y ago
It's sad they don't promote Mercurial as much as they do Git.
- DrJokepu 12y ago
  Back in the day BitBucket used to be Mercurial-only. Times change, I guess.
- gtaylor 12y ago
  For a for-profit shop like Bitbucket, there's probably a business reason for that. I certainly don't have any metrics to back this up, but I can understand how they'd want to primarily appeal to what seems to be a wider git audience.
  - anton_gogolev 12y ago
    From what I can see, whatever new functionality is being add to the site works equally well for Mercurial and Git (sans obvious differences in Hg/Git branching models). Pull Requests, Branch Permissions, Notifications, possibly something else, -- all work with Hg too. Yet they promote Git like crazy and leave Mercurial behind.
- ris 12y ago
  It's worse than that - it seems almost as though there aren't many people left working on the project who understand Mercurial. Case in point: stripping Mercurial changesets from a repository has been almost completely broken for many months now with little interest or activity on the bug report.
samplusplus 12y ago
Take a look at the conversation that transpired on the blog post comments. Here is a copy and paste from the CEO for GitLab: GitLab B.V. CEO here, as you might know GitLab is an open source project that is similar to GitHub and Bitbucket. Because it is open source some of our 700 contributors have contributed most of the top 5 feature requests you mentioned: 1. Contributor Statistics https://bitbucket.org/site/mas.. https://bitbucket.org/site/mas... => Available on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/.. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/... 2. Group repositories https://bitbucket.org/site/mas.. https://bitbucket.org/site/mas... => GitLab has groups https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ 3. Search source code https://bitbucket.org/site/mas.. https://bitbucket.org/site/mas... => Available in the top bar of every project (uses git grep on the backend) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/.. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/... 4. Support for 2FA => Still not in GitLab, we would love to see it and we're accepting pull/merge requests for this http://feedback.gitlab.com/for.. http://feedback.gitlab.com/for... 5. Separate permissions for wiki/issue tracker https://bitbucket.org/site/mas.. https://bitbucket.org/site/mas... => In GitLab a guest can access the issue tracker but not the source code https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/... https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/..., this is not the case for the wiki. You can use GitLab for free on GitLab.com with unlimited (private) repositories and collaborators. Currently we're at 5TB of repo's but it is growing fast. Feel free to reply to this comment if you have any questions.
- sytse 12y ago
  GitLab B.V. CEO here, thanks for pasting that Sam! I'll be happy to answer any questions here too.
- marcanum 12y ago
  GitLab B.V. Account manager here. I've noticed the links are broken, so here is the same comment as above, but with working links: Take a look at the conversation that transpired on the blog post comments. Here is a copy and past from the CEO for GitLab: GitLab B.V. CEO here, as you might know GitLab is an open source project that is similar to GitHub and Bitbucket. Because it is open source some of our 700 contributors have contributed most of the top 5 feature requests you mentioned: 1. Contributor Statistics https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/4307/feature-request-contributor-statistics-bb https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/4307/feature-request... => Available on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/graphs/master https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/graphs/master 2. Group repositories https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2323/create-a-way-to-group-repositories https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2323/create-a-way-to... => GitLab has groups https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ 3. Search source code https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2874/ability-to-search-source-code-bb-39 https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2874/ability-to-sear... => Available in the top bar of every project (uses git grep on the backend) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce 4. Support for 2FA => Still not in GitLab, we would love to see it and we're accepting pull/merge requests for this http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions/4516817-implement-two-factor-authentication-2fa http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions... 5. Separate permissions for wiki/issue tracker https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2462/allow-admins-to-specify-read-write-admin https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2462/allow-admins-to... => In GitLab a guest can access the issue tracker but not the source code https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/permissions/permissions.md https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/perm..., this is not the case for the wiki. You can use GitLab for free on GitLab.com with unlimited (private) repositories and collaborators. Currently we're at 5TB of repo's but it is growing fast. Feel free to reply to this comment if you have any questions.
whichfawkes 12y ago
Cool stats. I wonder when I'll be able to use my ECDSA key...
mark_l_watson 12y ago
I used to host my own git repos on a VPS but bitbucket (for private repos) and github (for open source repos) provide so many good auxiliary services that self hosting no longer makes sense for me. Great services.

108 points by gitdude 12y ago

deepinsand 12y ago

And still no 2 factor authorization ...

Techbrunch 12y ago
You can vote for this issue here:https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/5811/support-two-factor-authentication-bb-7016 https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/5811/support-two-fac...

baldfat 12y ago

Best for my own use due to unlimited free private repos limited by number of users. Works great for a one or two user work flow.

traeregan 12y ago

I like tuhtles. I also like Bitbucket. The team size based pricing w/ unlimited repos is what sold us over GitHub.

bombtrack 12y ago

I love that BB gives you unlimited private repos, and I'm glad to see them making progress. There's still plenty of things to improve [1,2]. [1] https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/4222/no-support-for-ecdsa-keys https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/4222/no-support-for-... [2] https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/6315/relative-urls-in-readmemd-files-only-work https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/6315/relative-urls-i...

flavor8 12y ago
Or https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/589/file-history-should-follow-copies-and https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/589/file-history-sho... ...which is almost 6 years old, and makes it hell to view PRs that involve moved files.
Techbrunch 12y ago
Or this one: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/6315/relative-urls-in-readmemd-files-only-work https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/6315/relative-urls-i...
- sytse 12y ago
  I think this is a duplicate of [2] in the parent post.
sytse 12y ago
GitLab B.V. CEO here, our open source edition has support for [1] ECDSA keys and [2] relative urls in readme's should always work. Consider giving GitLab.com a spin.

kiliancs 12y ago

Bitbucket is great, but also check out SourceTree, their git / Mercurial client http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/

karmelapple 12y ago
Great tool that I use daily. Interestingly, I recently talked to someone in an interview setting who got asked a question about git, and as soon as the interviewee started saying, "Typically I use SourceTree," the interviewer's demeanor turned sour on asking any further version control questions. Just because someone uses a GUI for version control doesn't mean they don't understand it... I prefer the way SourceTree makes it very easy and visual to stage portions of a file, and the always-displayed tree makes it very clear how different branching and merging operations are going to happen. Seemed like some weird attitude against a GUI source control tool... especially one specifically well-designed for a Mercurial or Git workflow.
- seanwilson 12y ago
  I'm a happy SourceTree user as well. I know how to use Git in the terminal but I find SourceTree quicker to use as it lets me quickly visualise what I need to see.
  - orbitur 12y ago
    It's interesting to think about. I use SourceTree for 3 things: - new branches (I find the syntax tedious for some reason, and I like to see where I am in the tree, so I'm already looking at SourceTree's interface when I'm branching) - deleting remote branches (see above about syntax) - awesome diff visualization for past commits and current work Everything else I do on the command line, because SourceTree requires just a few too many clicks for my liking. It's a shame the terminal can't have a nice diff interface like SourceTree's, otherwise I'd probably be full terminal.
    - seanwilson 12y ago

anton_gogolev 12y ago

It's sad they don't promote Mercurial as much as they do Git.

DrJokepu 12y ago
Back in the day BitBucket used to be Mercurial-only. Times change, I guess.
gtaylor 12y ago
For a for-profit shop like Bitbucket, there's probably a business reason for that. I certainly don't have any metrics to back this up, but I can understand how they'd want to primarily appeal to what seems to be a wider git audience.
- anton_gogolev 12y ago
  From what I can see, whatever new functionality is being add to the site works equally well for Mercurial and Git (sans obvious differences in Hg/Git branching models). Pull Requests, Branch Permissions, Notifications, possibly something else, -- all work with Hg too. Yet they promote Git like crazy and leave Mercurial behind.
ris 12y ago
It's worse than that - it seems almost as though there aren't many people left working on the project who understand Mercurial. Case in point: stripping Mercurial changesets from a repository has been almost completely broken for many months now with little interest or activity on the bug report.

samplusplus 12y ago

Take a look at the conversation that transpired on the blog post comments. Here is a copy and paste from the CEO for GitLab: GitLab B.V. CEO here, as you might know GitLab is an open source project that is similar to GitHub and Bitbucket. Because it is open source some of our 700 contributors have contributed most of the top 5 feature requests you mentioned: 1. Contributor Statistics https://bitbucket.org/site/mas.. https://bitbucket.org/site/mas... => Available on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/.. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/... 2. Group repositories https://bitbucket.org/site/mas.. https://bitbucket.org/site/mas... => GitLab has groups https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ 3. Search source code https://bitbucket.org/site/mas.. https://bitbucket.org/site/mas... => Available in the top bar of every project (uses git grep on the backend) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/.. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/... 4. Support for 2FA => Still not in GitLab, we would love to see it and we're accepting pull/merge requests for this http://feedback.gitlab.com/for.. http://feedback.gitlab.com/for... 5. Separate permissions for wiki/issue tracker https://bitbucket.org/site/mas.. https://bitbucket.org/site/mas... => In GitLab a guest can access the issue tracker but not the source code https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/... https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/..., this is not the case for the wiki. You can use GitLab for free on GitLab.com with unlimited (private) repositories and collaborators. Currently we're at 5TB of repo's but it is growing fast. Feel free to reply to this comment if you have any questions.

sytse 12y ago
GitLab B.V. CEO here, thanks for pasting that Sam! I'll be happy to answer any questions here too.
marcanum 12y ago
GitLab B.V. Account manager here. I've noticed the links are broken, so here is the same comment as above, but with working links: Take a look at the conversation that transpired on the blog post comments. Here is a copy and past from the CEO for GitLab: GitLab B.V. CEO here, as you might know GitLab is an open source project that is similar to GitHub and Bitbucket. Because it is open source some of our 700 contributors have contributed most of the top 5 feature requests you mentioned: 1. Contributor Statistics https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/4307/feature-request-contributor-statistics-bb https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/4307/feature-request... => Available on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/graphs/master https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/graphs/master 2. Group repositories https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2323/create-a-way-to-group-repositories https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2323/create-a-way-to... => GitLab has groups https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ 3. Search source code https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2874/ability-to-search-source-code-bb-39 https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2874/ability-to-sear... => Available in the top bar of every project (uses git grep on the backend) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce 4. Support for 2FA => Still not in GitLab, we would love to see it and we're accepting pull/merge requests for this http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions/4516817-implement-two-factor-authentication-2fa http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions... 5. Separate permissions for wiki/issue tracker https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2462/allow-admins-to-specify-read-write-admin https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2462/allow-admins-to... => In GitLab a guest can access the issue tracker but not the source code https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/permissions/permissions.md https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/perm..., this is not the case for the wiki. You can use GitLab for free on GitLab.com with unlimited (private) repositories and collaborators. Currently we're at 5TB of repo's but it is growing fast. Feel free to reply to this comment if you have any questions.

whichfawkes 12y ago

Cool stats. I wonder when I'll be able to use my ECDSA key...

mark_l_watson 12y ago

I used to host my own git repos on a VPS but bitbucket (for private repos) and github (for open source repos) provide so many good auxiliary services that self hosting no longer makes sense for me. Great services.