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Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by fcuozzo »

stiletto wrote: post #98

A few months ago, I convinced my startup to try bitbucket because of the free private repos. Over the course of a month or two, there were multiple times that I could not collaborate with my teammate because bitbucket was unreachable. We have since switched to github, pay a small fee per month, and have never had this issue. How is everyone else's up-time experiences in the past few months? I'm setting up a few perso…

BitBucket is a vital part of Atlassian's internal development process, all product teams use it on a daily basis and we treat it as a mission critical service, I'm really surprised by this comment as here in Sydney we rarely see any issues, I would be lying if some hiccups hadn't happened in the past but they were usually in very short duration, and usually only affect the UI so you can still pull/push using HTTP/SSH, moreover we have a 24/7 dedicated team to respond to any outages and there is absolutely no differences in terms of infra-structure of free vs. paid accounts inside Bitbucket, so rest assured that we put a lot of effort on making the site better for everyone.

We improved the architecture a few months ago and that should also contribute to the stability of the system as a whole, see more at: http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/08/24/segregating-services/

And you can follow the status of the service at: http://status.bitbucket.org

We would love to hear more feedbacks like this through our usual support channels when it happens so we can investigate and improve our service. (Disclosure: I work on Atlassian's OnDemand team).

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by Jase »

jksmith wrote: post #86
notatoad wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitbucket had a pretty easy time of winning my business: free private repositories for small teams is a great way to draw people in.

How long will it take for the private repos to be hacked? Would you put the company revenue generating jewels in there?

For what it's worth, all of Atlassian's company revenue generating jewels are hosted on Bitbucket, so security is fairly important to us. :)

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by Osiris »

human_error wrote: post #206
Osiris wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've tried at least a dozen Git GUIs for both PC and Mac and SourceTree is by far my favorite.

IMHO, Git-Tower is way better than SourceTree.

Git-Tower is $60. SourceTree is free. Compare accordingly.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by hayksaakian »

yosoyzenitram wrote: post #184
notatoad wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitbucket had a pretty easy time of winning my business: free private repositories for small teams is a great way to draw people in.

Even better: if you sign up with a .edu email address (hell, even my university email account works and it's a .es), they upgrade your account to unlimited everything , automatically. GitHub also does a Educational plan, but it requires manual requests and IIRC they give you a Micro account. So Bitbucket is the default choice for all my shared class projects.

Thanks for the tip, I signed up for free private repos, but this makes me a real fan.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by timr »

grandalf wrote: post #142
notatoad wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitbucket had a pretty easy time of winning my business: free private repositories for small teams is a great way to draw people in.

With the $100M investment I now think it's probably a bad business decision for github not to get a bit more aggressive on pricing for those edge cases where bitbucket clearly wins.

Yes. Especially when you factor in that github does a startlingly bad job of many basic things. Their ticketing system blows, for example -- you can't prioritize anything. Yet they have time to implement a CLI in the search bar...

I moved my personal private repos to BitBucket a long time ago, and haven't looked back.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by john2x »

jstepka wrote: post #20
thomasvendetta wrote: post #12

To the bitbucket team: Please keep on doing what you are doing. Your service and this new redesign is awesome, and my team and myself wouldn't be where we are without you. We're a small team of young developers working on a startup for the past few months. We haven't launched yet so we're obviously not profitable, but the fact that you've enabled us to make it as far as we have also ensures that when we are in a posi…

> Also, you should update the Atlassian Store with t-shirts and other swag. Launching a t-shirt store in three weeks.

Cool. Let me know when it's up. ;) Will it have Atlassian related designs? Or Git/Hg/etc. related ones?

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by mnutt »

tzs wrote: post #118
bryanh wrote: post #8

For a while I was a bit worried that GitHub had just ran away with the prize and no one else was bothering. It is pretty obvious that Google isn't interested in improving Google Code and that Sourceforge hasn't aged a day (that's not really fair, but it feels like it). I think there is still a chance for BitBucket to make a splash, but I think its going to be hard to win anymore. That's fine, 2nd place makes a lot of…

They've got a good shot, because a lot of people need private repositories and do NOT need the social features of Github. They just need a basic git server to hold the master repository. For doing their work, the built-in tools of git are sufficient. For such people, Github is ridiculously expensive, since their price is based on the number of repositories you have. For instance, at work we've got enough repositories…

Isn't that like complaining about Apple selling the iPhone at over $100/ounce?

I don't contest that there are probably people who only need a remote git repo and nothing else. But those companies that would service them either compete on features or get pushed down to wholesale cloud storage prices, a place you don't want to be unless you're Amazon.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Post by hashtree »

mariusmg wrote: post #189

Do the Bitbucket employees have access to your private repos(s) ? Honest question.

"Relating to Bitbucket security, we take your source code security very seriously. Nearly all of the code on Bitbucket, is private. Via the web application, no Bitbucket staff members have access to your repositories, nor can they grant themselves access to your repositories even for support reasons.

At the datacenter, VPN access limited to a very small number of engineers on our team, and we store the repositories in a hashed directory structure that makes it difficult to identify repositories by username."

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/bitbucke...

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