BitBucket is a cloud-based service that helps to store and manage their code, as well as track and control the changes to their code. BitBucket provides a cloud-based Git repository hosting service. Additionally, BitBuckets provides a variety of services like it gives teams to collaborate and create projects, test and deploy the code. BitBucket is more than just a repository hosting service; it is a complete DevOps solution. It allows developers to manage their source code repositories, collaborate with team members, and automate the software development lifecycle from a single platform. BitBucket supports both Git and Mercurial, although it is primarily used with Git in recent times.
- Code Review System Bitbucket has a super-fast code review system that helps the developers and the reviewers to review the pull request in very less time.
- Powerful JIRA Integration JIRA is one of the best tools to track bugs within the code. This tool can easily integrate Bitbucket and JIRA.
- In-line Discussion In-line Discussion can be used to add inline comments and threaded conversations within the code snippet. Thus, making the reviewers and developers interactions better.
- BitBucket Cloud & Server BitBucket provides two different services as per the need of the users. If your team size is small (1-5) then you can opt for Bitbucket cloud or you can opt for BitBucket Server for big teams.
- Built-In Issue Tracker Issues can be easily tracked in BitBucket with it’s Built-in system. This tracker is flexible, easy to use and has a number of configurable fields like version, milestone, etc.
- BitBucket Interface BitBucket interface is quite simple to use and one can easily search for repositories, pull requests, branches, usernames, other features of the tools, etc.
- Query Management System: The query management system provided in BitBucket makes the work easy by providing an integrated system.
- Authentication via Github: BitBucket allows the user to authenticate and add social media via Github.
- Integrated JIRA Tool: BitBucket also supports BUg tracking tool JIRA. It automatically detects bugs in the code and updates the information when a new commit is performed.
- Import Repositories: We can also import old repositories from third-party services.
- Pricing: BitBucket is free for small teams (0-5). You can use an unlimited number of free private repositories. The students and teachers can also get the free benefits of BitBucket.
- BitBucket doesn’t have the same simplified PR management tools as other competitors.
- The private repositories are free for a team of 1 to 5 members. If the team is larger than 5, you have to pay for each additional team member.
- Sometimes integrated applications like SourceTree perform strange errors, causing loss of time.
- 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.
- There are some search-related issues when finding a particular file. First, you need to launch the repository and find it locally. It’s a bit long process.
